About the Author

Russell Duncan is a professor of history in the English Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of several books, including "First Person Past: American Autobiographies," "Freedom's Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen" (Georgia), and "Entrepreneur for Equality: Governor Rufus Bullock, Commerce, and Race in Post-Civil War Georgia" (Georgia).

Reviews

A sensitive and instructive profile of an imperfect but heroic young man whose death was an affirmation of a profound hope." — Civil War History

"[Duncan's] discussion of Shaw and those around him offers a . . . complicated and compelling reality." —Booklist