Black Soldiers' Role in ending Slavery and Winning the Civil War: The History Most Americans Don't Know
Few Americans understand the important role of African-American soldiers in ending slavery and helping to win the Civil War. While the Emancipation Proclamation is generally believed to have ended slavery, it freed no slaves on January 1st, 1863. It did however set into motion considerations that would eventually end both slavery and the U.S. Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation allowed 200,000 African-American soldiers to serve in the Union Army and help to free 4,000,000 enslaved African-American people in the United States out of a total of 4.5 million African-Americans living in the United States at that time.
Our guest Captain Ed Gantt s a retired Navy Captain, He graduated from Howard University and entered Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School. The place that was depicted in the movie - An Officer and a Gentleman. Captain Gantt served 30 years of active duty in the US Army and Navy and a tour as a commanding officer of the F-14 Tomcat squadron, the aircraft, and squadron featured in the movie Top Gun.
Captain Gantt has been involved as a civil war re-enactor and speaker since 2014 with a focus on the contribution of US Colored Troops to the outcome of the Civil War.
Most Americans don't know about the role of African-American Civil War reenactors in bringing a living, breathing Civil War history and the contributions of African-American soldiers to life across the US every year.
Ed Gantt will be interviewed by Dr. Richard Kennedy. Richard Kennedy is an Internist who has over 36 years of clinical experience including the World Bank Clinical Services and Private Practice, He is currently a Primary Care physician in Washington, DC. Medstar.
RESOURCES:
National Archives - Veteran's Records:
- For research on African-American soldiers serving in the Civil War.
African American Civil War Museum:
https://www.afroamcivilwar.org/
54th Massachusetts Regiment:
https://www.nps.gov/articles/54th-massachusetts-regiment.htm
Glory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(1989_film)
A1989 American historical war drama film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African-American regiments in the American Civil War.
Project Gutenberg: (Referencing books mentioned by Captain Gantt)
- A reminder on the books you mentioned is needed
National Museum of African American History and Culture:
https://nmaahc.si.edu/
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The Legacy Museum:
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/
From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
Located on the site of a former warehouse where Black people were forced to labor in Montgomery, Alabama, this narrative museum uses interactive media, sculpture, an
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