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The Life of Louis Fatio: American Slavery and Indigenous Sovereignty

In 1892 a reporter for the Missouri-based Daily Globe-Democrat interviewed an elderly Black man by the name of Louis Fatio living near

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Holly Pinheiro’s The Families’

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. The Families’ Civil War:

Throughout the American Civil War male proponents (Black and white) of mobilizing United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments viewed military

By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men served as US soldiers and sailors. Of that number, more than 17,000