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More than 150 years after the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organisations repeat claims that anywhere up to 100,000 African Americans fought in the Confederate army. Kevin Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts and poorly understood primary-source material have helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth.

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“Levin's timely and telling account should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the uses and abuses of history and the power and dangers of mythmaking.”--Library Journal, starred review

Searching for Black Confederates The Civil Wars

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      Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
      Published 30 August 2019
      ISBN-13 9781469653266
      978-1469653266
      ISBN-10 1469653265
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      Civil wars Specific wars and military campaigns

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      Book Synopsis
      More than 150 years after the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organisations repeat claims that anywhere up to 100,000 African Americans fought in the Confederate army. Kevin Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts and poorly understood primary-source material have helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth.

      Trade Review
      “Levin's timely and telling account should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the uses and abuses of history and the power and dangers of mythmaking.”--Library Journal, starred review

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