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After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as "buffalo soldiers" in the Indian wars, nearly overshadowing the critical support role of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantries. Now Arlen L. Fowler brings to light the story of African-American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana, and Arizona.
At first the infantry's primary role was to escort trains and stagecoaches build roads and telegraph lines, and guard supply lines, with only an occasional battle against raiding Indians and outlaws.
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Xenia Henrie
reviewed The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891 on January 02, 2021
The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891
This was solid and well-researched history. The main historical thesis is that there was no true golden age for the black comunity in LA, but there was a time when it was not too bad, and hope of achieving a better future could exist strong and well. I like that distinction. He also argues that in their struggle for equality and freedom, Black folks were entirely pragmatic and willing to try anything once, and I think he did pretty well in showing that. I loved how many people were involved in organisations on both sides of the Washington-DuBois debate for example, and then joined up with Garvey and a few other things here or there, a brilliant example of why strictly intellectual or 'great-man' focused histories don't get you too close to what lived reality or struggle was like on the ground. Of course, having worked so long in LA this was fascinating reading and there was so so much here I didn't know, I'm excited to go back and trying and hunt down some of the landmarks, though urban renewal has destroyed so many. 'Negro' removal indeed, it has erased even the history from an area I actually know pretty well through my work.
I'm a bit dubious about his definition of middle class, I think it takes more than aspiration. However you define this class of those attempting to be upwardly mobile, this book is entirely focused on them, with only a nod to the large majority. The fact that so many of them could pass as white I found quite curious, and again, points to the way that issues dividing the black community itself weren't touched on with any great depth. And again, I was restless in the absence of any analysis of the pragmatism of black tactics and strategies, how those have shaped the black struggle today and the immense distance between the middle-class and those who continue in the ghetto, why people like Charlotta Bass turned from them to become more anti-capitalist. But I suppose that would be another book.
Still, Charlotta and Big Joe Bass? They feel like family, makes you proud to be part of a tradition of struggle for a better world.
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