| Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia Contributor(s): Jordan, Ervin L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813915449 ISBN-13: 9780813915449 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $49.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | Military - General - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: 973.747 |
| LCCN: 94016923 |
| Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era |
| Physical Information: 1.45" H x 6.48" W x 9.56" (2.21 lbs) 476 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Topical - Civil War - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - South Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |