Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor Lucinda Kinsinger This new novel takes place

This new novel takes place during the very early days of the rebellion

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Masahiro Imamura

Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor Lucinda Kinsinger This new novel takes placeThe heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author's great grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould's activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service