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When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, he also authorized the U.S. Army to recruit black soldiers for the war effort. Just about 200,000 men answered the decision, and a couple of thousand of them came from Canada. What compelled these men to go away the relative comfort and safety of home to fight in a foreign war? In African Canadians in Union Blue, Richard M. Reid sets out searching for an answer and discovers a group of guys whose courage and contributions open a window at the changing working out of the American Civil War and the binds that held black communities together whilst the borders around them shifted and were torn asunder.