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Kevin M. Levin, "Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Kevin M. Levin, "Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth" (UNC Press, 2019)
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44 minutes
Released:
Sep 4, 2019
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Podcast episode
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Kevin M. Levin is the author of Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2019. Searching for Black Confederates investigates the claims that numerous African Americans willingly fought for the Confederacy. Investigating the Confederate Army at the time of the Civil War, Levin illustrates that such a claim would have surprised those actually present in the army. Moving forward, Levin recounts how this myth came to be, and its persistence into our own day. All the while, he makes sure to pay attention to the actions of African Americans during the Civil War and after its conclusion.
Kevin Levin is an award-winning educator and historian, who studies the American Civil War.
Derek Litvak is a Ph.D. student in the department of history at the University of Maryland.
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Kevin Levin is an award-winning educator and historian, who studies the American Civil War.
Derek Litvak is a Ph.D. student in the department of history at the University of Maryland.
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Released:
Sep 4, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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