The African American history series

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans?both slave and free?from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or Lincoln?s emergence as the great emancipator, Escott concentrates on the black military and civilian experience in the North as well as the South.

Uses narrative history and primary sources to chronicle the African American experience during and after World War II, focusing on the social, economic, and military impact of the war.