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Reference books with the most documented accounts
of African-Americans who served with the
Confederate States Army (Black Confederates)

	Title: Black Confederates Authors: Charles Kelly Barrow, R. B. Rosenburg (Editor), J. H. Segars (Editor) Genre: Nonfiction Publication Date: 2001 Media: Paperback Book Description: Contains correspondence, military records, and reminiscences from African American men who served with the Confederates States Army (Black Confederates)
	Title: Black Southerners in Confederate Armies Authors: J.H. Segars and Charles Barrow (Compiler) Genre: Nonfiction Publication Date: 2007 Media: Paperback Book Description: Official records, newspaper articles, veterans' accounts, and other surviving documents suggest that large numbers of slaves and freedmen served as southern allies-and, in some instances, as soldiers and sailors for the Confederacy.
	Title: Black Defenders of America, 1775-1973 Authors: Robert Ewell Greene Genre: Nonfiction Publication Date: 1974 Media: Hardback Book Description: This book is intended to present the history of the African-American journey towards recognition and equality, to detail facts both glorious and inglorious that prove and illustrate the presence of black soldiers from the days of the earliest settlers in the United States of America. Chapter 4 in its entirety is on The Civil War (1861-1865) and highlights by name African-Americans who served with the Confederate States Army.
	Title: Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia Subtitle: A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History Series Edition 1 Author: Ervin L. Jordan Genre: Nonfiction Publication Date: 1995 Media: Paperback Book Description: Witness every aspect of black life: slave and free; rural and urban; home front and battlefield; at work on plantations but also in munitions factories in Richmond; as wartime Union spies and as soldiers in the Confederate army.
	Title: Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong Author: Lochlainn Seabrook Genre: Nonfiction Publication Date: 2010 Media: Paperback Book Description: Popular Southern historian and author Lochlainn Seabrook sets the record straight in this easy-to-read, well documented handbook that confronts the many falsehoods about the American Civil War. Read the sensational racially-inclusive book that everyone’s talking about. Several chapters address the issue of slavery; and Chapter 14 is dedicated to the topic of The Confederacy and Blacks.

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