TY  - GEN
AU  - Gladstone,William A.
TI  - Afro-American military collection,
KW  - United States
KW  - Colored Troops
KW  - Continental Army
KW  - African American troops
KW  - Corps d'Afrique
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Participation, African American
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Collectors
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, pay vouchers, orders, muster rolls, enlistment and discharge papers, receipts, contracts, affidavits, tax records, miscellaneous military documents, and printed matter documenting African Americans in military service.  The bulk of the collection concerns the Civil War service of the U.S. Corps d'Afrique (organized in 1863 and renamed U.S. Colored Troops in 1864).  Documents from the American Revolution consist chiefly of pay vouchers of Connecticut African Americans serving in the U.S. Continental Army.  Also includes documents pertaining to slavery and printed matter such as nineteenth century speeches and writings on slavery, government orders, broadsides, and twentieth-century booklets and journal articles
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011131
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011131.3
ER  -