| Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia Contributor(s): Jordan, Ervin L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813915457 ISBN-13: 9780813915456 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $29.21 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: This book will be important not only because it tells us more than we knew before about the black experience but also because it explores topics rarely or never treated in previous scholarship. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 973.747 |
| LCCN: 94016923 |
| Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.91" W x 9.04" (1.48 lbs) 476 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Topical - Civil War - Ethnic Orientation - African American - 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. |