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Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America
Temple University Press
August 2010
On Sale: August 13, 2010
656 pages
ISBN: 1592134653
EAN: 9781592134656
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages
with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia s
best black baseball team, a teacher at the city s finest
black school and an activist who fought in the state capital
and on the streets for equal rights. With his
racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights
pioneer one who risked his life a century before Selma and
Birmingham. In Tasting Freedom Murray Dubin and Pulitzer Prize winner
Dan Biddle painstakingly chronicle the life of this
charismatic black leader a free black whose freedom was in
name only. Born in the American south, where slavery
permeated everyday life, he moved north where he joined the
fight to be truly free free to vote, go to school, ride on
streetcars, play baseball and even participate in July 4th
celebrations. Catto electrified a biracial audience in 1864 when he
proclaimed, There must come a change, calling on free men
and women to act and educate the newly freed slaves. With a
group of other African Americans who called themselves a
band of brothers, they challenged one injustice after
another. Tasting Freedom presents the little-known stories
of Catto and the men and women who struggled to change America.
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