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| Thomas' Legion |
| Introduction & How to Use this Site |
| Cherokee Chief William Holland Thomas |
| Causes and Motives: American Civil War |
| Organization of Union and Confederate Armies: Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery |
| American Civil War: Union and Confederate Navies |
| American Civil War: The Soldier's Life |
| American Civil War Battles and Battlefields |
| Civil War's Turning Points |
| Civil War Casualties, Fatalities & Statistics |
| Civil War Generals |
| American Civil War Desertions and Deserters: Union and Confederate |
| Aftermath and Reconstruction |
| Civil War Genealogy and Research Tools |
| American Civil War Pictures - Photographs |
| African Americans and the American Civil War |
| North Carolina in the American Civil War |
| Civil War Battles Fought in North Carolina |
| North Carolina Civil War Regiments and Battles |
| NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY |
| North Carolina Coast: American Civil War |
| Western North Carolina and the American Civil War |
| Western North Carolina Regiments and Battalions |
| HISTORY OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA |
| Cherokee Indians: American Civil War |
| HISTORY OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS |
| History of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian Nation |
| Cherokee Indian Heritage, History, Culture, Customs, Ceremonies, and Religion |
| Cherokee War Rituals, Culture, Festivals, Government, and Beliefs |
| Researching your Cherokee Heritage |
| Recommended American Indian History |
| North Carolina: American Civil War Photos |
| Thomas' Legion Papers, Diaries, and Memoirs |
| American Civil War Polls |
| Recommended Reading |
| Author's Recommendations: American Civil War |
| Civil War Video Games |
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Amanda Thomas Casey, Slavery
in Western North Carolina Photo, Photos, Pictures, History, Facts, Victoria Casey McDonald, A Pictorial History: The
African-Americans of Jackson County North Carolina
Photograph is courtesy Victoria Casey McDonald
Amanda Thomas Casey was born into slavery to a woman named Martha, who is thought to have been one
of the first slaves of Cherokee Chief William Holland Thomas. Photo is courtesy Victoria Casey McDonald from her book, “A Pictorial History: The African-Americans of Jackson County."
Recommended Reading: A
Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina
Volunteers. Description: Taylor was born a slave, gained her freedom early in the Civil War,
and served as a nurse for the first black regiment of the Union Army. Her disappointing, fairly random recollections cover
her flight to freedom in 1862, her regiment's expeditions along the Southeastern coast, the end of the war and, briefly, Reconstruction.
The author does not demonstrate a capacity for observation and reflection or the descriptive skills necessary to bring her
experiences to life for the reader. Of such a momentous occasion as the first time she heard the Emancipation Proclamation,
her most significant comment is: "It was a glorious day for us all, and we enjoyed every minute of it." Continued below...
She also makes little mention of her personal life, including her two marriages and the death of a son.
In her reflections on the condition of blacks in 1902, the year the memoirs were originally privately published, Taylor's
writing is at its strongest and most vivid as she decries the betrayal of the freedom and equality blacks and whites had fought
for in the Civil War. Included here are excellent, illuminating footnotes by Romero, a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University.
Containing historical facts and analysis and quotes from other Civil War memoirs, they supply not only the historical context,
but also some of the human drama that Taylor's offering lacks. Publishers Weekly, Copyright
1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Recommended Reading: Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement. Description: With all the
flair of his last-second game-winning sky hooks, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers a well-written and important collection highlighting
the lives of America's
greatest black heroes. Taking his title cue from John Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Abdul-Jabbar brings to life the exploits
of a wide variety of African Americans, including Estevanico, a Moorish slave who discovered Arizona and New Mexico; Cinque,
a kidnapped African slave who led a mutiny aboard the slave ship Amistad and later won his freedom in the U.S.; and Harriet
Tubman, who brought hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Continued below...
In a time when
the media beams negative images of African Americans around the world, Black Profiles in Courage is indispensable for young
adults of other races as well as African-American youth, showing that attributes like courage are not coded by color. For
those young blacks who feel distant from America because of racism, books like this are a small but potent antidote against
prejudice, reminding them of the important contributions African Americans have made to their country.
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