Clip: Dr. Roy Finkenbine On Backlash Faced By Black Soldiers In The Union Army

From Episode #19 with Dr. Roy FinkenbineRoy E. Finkenbine is professor of history and co-chair for the History Department. He teaches courses in African American history, modern Africa, slave resistance, the Civil War era, and the Underground Railroad, and serves as Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive. He received his Doctorate in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in 1982 and joined the Detroit Mercy faculty in 1996. While on the editorial staff of the Black Abolitionist Papers Project at Florida State University in the 1980s and 1990s, he coedited the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 (1985-1992) and Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation (1993). He authored Sources of the African-American Past (1st ed., 1997; 2nd ed., 2004), as well as over a dozen articles and book chapters related to the black abolitionists and the Underground Railroad.Profile:https://www.udmercy.edu/about/....people/university/cl