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The Peninsula Campaign & the necessity of emancipation : African Americans & the fight for freedom / Glenn David Brasher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brasher, Glenn David.
- Series:
- Civil War America.
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.
- United States.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction: an evening on Malvern Hill
- Preludes: war, slavery, and the Virginia peninsula
- Contraband of war: April-July 1861
- War is a swift educator: July-December 1861
- The best informed residents in Virginia: December 1861-April 1862
- The monuments to negro labor: April-May 1862
- Those by whom these relations are broken: May 1862
- An invaluable ally: late May-July 1862
- A higher destiny: July 1862
- Conclusion: monarchs of all they survey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835449
- 0807835447
- OCLC:
- 748941791
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