Dust jacket notes: "...Black soldiers (called 'Smoked Yankees' by the Spaniards) hoped to ease Negro oppression in the United States by serving in the regular and volunteer armies during the Spanish-American War and fighting for the white man in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Selected from hundreds printed in the Negro press, these letters constitute a remarkably complete and hitherto undisclosed record of the black man's role (and attitudes) in America's struggle for empire at the turn of the century. Together they provide a wholly new prespective on the Spanish-American War and the Filipino Insurrection."

Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898-1902

Politics & Social Sciences

Gatewood, Willard B. Jr

Social Sciences

University of Illinois

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Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898-1902