The Importance of White Identity Politics in American History

In telling the history of the reconstruction period Du Bois insists upon the agency black people had in their own emancipation. This often contradicts with you know US high school and early college tailings of American history which really obscures or outright ignores the role that black people themselves had in fighting back against a slavery. The matsopation proclamation in January 1st 1863 has to be seen minimally as a war fighting measured in so far as it induces and entices the enslaved to lead the plantations and defect to the side of Lincoln military. So what do you make of this intervention? Well it's exceedingly important I've already made to the almost 200,000 Negro troops who fight arms in hand against the