Students show Senator Obama a display on the US Civil War and slavery at the Mapleton
Expeditionary School of the Arts in Thornton, Colorado May 28, 2008.
Thoughtful
Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
“Levin’s study is the first of its kind to blueprint and then debunk the mythology of enslaved African Americans who allegedly served voluntarily in behalf of the Confederacy.”–Journal of Southern History