Unforgettable Sacrifice

Hilary N. Green (Author) Hilary N. Green is the James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. A distinguished scholar, her research explores the intersections of race, memory, and education in the post–Civil War American South. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890, co-author of the NPS-OAH Historic Resource Study of African American Schools in the South, 1865–1900, and co-editor of The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 (Fordham).Edda L. Fields-Black (Foreword By) Edda L. Fields-Black is a Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Her latest book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (2024) uses US Civil War Pension Files to tell the story of the Combahee River Raid, when in June 1863 Harriet Tubman, her ring of spies, scouts, and pilots piloted Colonel James Montgomery, the 2nd SC Volunteers, and one battery of the 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery up the Combahee River to raid seven rice plantations and bring liberation to 756 enslaved people, through the words and using the voices of the Combahee freedom seekers who self-liberated in the raid. One of Fields-Black's many specialties is identifying new sources and methods to recover the voices of historical actors (particularly peasant rice farmers in early and pre-colonial West Africa's Upper Guinea Coast and Blacks forced to labor on rice plantations in the antebellum South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry) who did not author their own written sources.

• Note on Language and Sources xiForeword by Edda L. Fields-Black xiiiPorches: An Introduction 1Part I: Porches of My Mother's Kinkeepers1 Remembering the Enslavement of Black Pennsylvanians 172 Honoring Liberators and the Grand Reception in Harrisburg, 1865 373 Joseph Winters's Songs for Self-Made Men 624 Cumberland Valley Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic 89Porch Lessons I: Rebel, Father, and Veteran 111Part II: Porches of My Adopted Kinkeepers5 The Limits of Emancipationist Memory in Richmond 1216 Black Women and the Persistence ofMemory 145Porch Lessons II: More Than Names on a Page 173Part III Porches of My Father's KinkeepersPorch Lessons III: The Other Syllabus 1877 Delayed Honor in the Charleston Lowcountry 1998 "More Than a Footnote" during the Sesquicentennial 221Toward Black Civil War Memory Studies: A Conclusion 244Locating Neal, Crawford, and Gabe: An Epilogue 249Acknowledgments 259Notes 261Bibliography 343Index 375Photographs follow page 200