Marching Masters : Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodward, Colin Edward, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Confederate States of America. > Army.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Military life.
Soldiers > Attitudes.
Social aspects.
Slavery.
Military policy.
Military participation > African American.
Armed Forces > Military life.
African Americans.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Attitudes.
Slavery > Southern States > History > 19th century.
United States > Confederate States of America.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Noirs americains.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Confederate States of America > Military policy.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The question of slavery" : Confederate soldiers and the Southern cause, 1861-1862
  • Planters and yeomen, officers and privates : race, class and Confederate soldiers
  • The greatest of masters : the Confederate Army and the impressment of black labor
  • "Send me the negro boy" : Confederate soldiers and the need for slaves in camp
  • "We crushed their freedom" : emancipation and the problem of slave loyalty
  • On battlefields and in prisons : Confederate soldiers confront black Union troops
  • Free to fight : the Confederate Army and the use of slaves as soldiers
  • Relics of the antebellum era : Confederate soldiers and the postwar world
  • Conclusion : "republics have proverbially short memories."

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