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An 8 page research paper that offers a brief historiography of the impact of the civil war on northern blacks. The writer offers examples of historical scholarship from the nineteenth century, but largely focuses on contemporary scholarship. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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text on the subject, historian Benjamin Quarles discusses early historiography in this topic. Some of these early efforts are authored by African Americans who participated in the war, fighting for
the North. One such autobiographical account is Joseph T. Wilsons The Black Phalanx (Hartford, 1882). Quarles states that this is a "well-planned" text, but adds that it is not always
a well-integrated study of the "Negro" at the battle front (Quarles 349). In 1888, George Washington Williams published his test History of the Negro Troops in the War of the
Rebellion, 1861-1865. Of this text, Quarles comments approvingly of the books fast pace and vivid description, but criticizes the authors tendency to interrupt recounting the flow of events with moralizing
digressions (Quarles 350). Likewise, Quarles is critical of the text by abolitionist lecturer William Wells Brown (The Negro in the American Rebellion, Boston, 1867). According to Quarles, Brown tends to
relate anecdotes and stories that may, or may not, be true, as he was more interested in human interest than historical accuracy. Another notable nineteenth century text on Northern blacks
and the Civil War is James M. Gutheries Camp-Fires of the Afro-American (Philadelphia, 1889), which Quarles describes as a work of "minor merit" (Quarles 350). In the first half of
the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiography. Quarles recommends Herbert Apthekers The Negro in the Civil War
(New York, 1938 and W.E.B. Du Boiss Black Reconstruction (New York, 1935). In his own text, Quarles discusses the impact that the Civil War had on the "quarter of a
million Negroes" who lived "north of the Mason Dixon line" (Quarles xi). These blacks, acting in concert with like-minded whites, put considerable pressure on the Lincoln administration, as well
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