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

Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898-1902 by Gatewood, Willard B. Jr. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780252001611.

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 mans role (and attitudes) in Americas 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."