Diary of a Contraband The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor

"[Diary of a Contraband provides] modern readers with vivid insight into the life and thought of a man who overcame the degradations of slavery, actively sought his own freedom and fought to make it permanent, and in the end forged a new life as a full citizen . . . .An unusual work, [it is] one of only three wartime diaries kept by black sailors."Library Journal "Diary of a Contraband offers a fascinating picture of everyday life for sailors and cilivians in the 1860s. It also provides tantalizing details of antebellum Willington that have seldom made their way into written history."Willmington Star-NewsGould, William B. is the author of 'Diary of a Contraband The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor' with ISBN 9780804746403 and ISBN 0804746400.