Bibliograph

Tasting freedom, Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin

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Tasting freedom, Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [569]-602) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

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illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tasting freedom

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

473123281

Responsibility statement

Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin

Sub title

Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America

Summary

In Tasting Freedom, the authors painstakingly chronicle the life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Cattoa free black man whose freedom was in name onlyand the first civil rights movement in America. Catto electrified a biracial audience in 1864 when he called on free men and women to act and to educate the newly freed slaves, proclaiming, There must come a change. Tasting Freedom presents the little-known stories of Catto and the men and women who struggled to change America

Table Of Contents

Introduction: "A hundred O.V. Cattos" -- Charleston -- Arm in arm -- "Keep the flame burning-- " -- With giants -- Lessons -- The Irish, the killers, and Squire McMullen -- "Arise, young North" -- "How much I yearn to be a man" -- A chance on the pavement -- The wolf killers -- Manhood -- The battle for streetcars -- Baseball -- The hide of the rhinoceros -- Election day -- The Venus of the high trapeze -- Epilogue: The legacy

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