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Courage, family, and citizenship to counteract prevailing stereotypes, and the national archives hosted this talk and provided the video. Greetings from the national archives. Im david fairio, archivist of the united states. And it is my pleasure to present Deborah Willis Author of the black civil War Soldier. The civil war was the most prolonged conflict to be extensively be recorded in photographs. This visual record gives a sense of immediacy that we dont have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war and other earlier conflicts. We can identify individual faces and imagine ourselves in the battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are in the national archives but photos of the black soldiers are rare. In the book the black civil War Soldier Deborah Willis shows us the faces of the number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record, she examines not only the individual stories of th
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