In Fighting for Citizenship , Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why Black men fought in the Civil War.
Some, like Frederick Douglass, urged immediate enlistment to support the cause of emanc.
Civil War-era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring Black rights, goals that had eluded earlier generations of Black veterans.
In Fighting for Citizenship , Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why Black men fought in the Civil War