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Douglas R. Egerton

Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of History at LeMoyne College. He is the author of six books, including He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark VeseyGabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 & 1802, and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America; and Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America, which was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Book Prize.

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Fighting to defeat the Confederacy, the first African American regiments also helped win for themselves the full rights and privileges of U.S. citizens.  
After his father's death in 1848, Charles Francis Adams, Sr. became the last great hope of America's first—and, at the time, only—political dynasty.