Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History)

Type

Book

Authors

Ervin L. Jordan Jr.

ISBN 10

0813915457

ISBN 13

9780813915456

Tags

Campaigns & Battlefields, Confederacy, State & Local, African-American Studies, Confederate States of America, Virginia, Slavery, Soldiers, Race Relations, Colored Troops

Description

On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- and they were active participants in the single most dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia is the first comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history and culture. Through it we witness every aspect of black life: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations but also in munitions factories in Richmond; as wartime Union spies and as soldiers in the Confederate army.

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