Diary of a contraband
Tagebuch
United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives
African American Participation
Naval Military operations
Military participation
African American
American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658
Sailors
Naval operations
Genealogy
United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Diaries
Personal narratives
Biography
History
"In September 1862, William Benjamin Gould escaped from slavery by rowing to the U.S.S. Cambridge, a Union gunboat patrolling off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina. He served in the United States Navy for the remainder of the Civil War and left a diary of his experiences - one of only three kn…
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