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Tag Archives: William Still
BookChat with Brian Luskey, Author of Men is Cheap
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Brian Luskey, associate professor of history at West Virginia University. Luskey is the author of Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Common Soldier, Economics, Slavery
Tagged Abolition, bounty jumpers, Brian Luskey, free labor, Men Is Cheap, Slavery, UNC Press, William Still
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African-Americans in the Civil War (Part 2)
Part two in a series. While thousands of slaves escaped slavery before the Civil War, in many cases using the Underground Railroad, thousands more escaped slavery during the Civil War. In 1862, from April to August the Union army occupied … Continue reading