John A. White Jr. was a research engineer and Civil War re-enactor for over twenty years. His passion for research expanded beyond his engineering career to African American history and he founded the Gospel Army Black History Group. He used his technical research skills to develop a perspective of African American slave liberation that represents the perspective of contemporary African American's, former slaves and abolitionist. In the words of a former slave, "If you want Negro History, you will have to get it from somebody who wore the shoe." Primary historical sources such as the slave...