"Black POWs in Confederate Prisons"
On Tuesday, February 6 at 7 p.m. in the Mackay Room, author and professor Thomas J. Ward Jr. will discuss "Black POWs in Confederate Prisons"
During the Civil War, over 180,000 black men served as soldiers in the U.S. Army. However, the Confederate government officially refused to acknowledge any black men as soldiers, declaring them instead to be “slaves in rebellion,” and subject to either re-enslavement or execution if caught fighting with the U.S. Army.
Thomas J. Ward Jr. is Assistant Dean in the School of Arts and Sciences at Farmingdale State College (SUNY) in Long Island, New York.
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