Lectures in History Preview: Emancipation & U.S. Colored Troops

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Coppin State history professor Roger Davidson discusses how African Americans used the disorder caused by the Civil War to escape enslavement, and details how former slaves -- eager to end slavery - offered their services to Union forces. Coppin State University is in Baltimore, Maryland.

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