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Confederate slave impressment in the upper South / Jaime Amanda Martinez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martinez, Jaime Amanda.
- Series:
- Civil War America (Series)
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Confederate States of America.
- Slavery.
- War and society.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
- United States.
- History.
- African Americans.
- War and society--Confederate States of America.
- Confederate States of America--Race relations.
- Confederate States of America.
- Race relations.
- United States--Confederate States of America.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Hundreds have been called: slave impressment at the local and state levels, 1861-1863
- Throwing up breastworks: slave laborers under the Engineer Bureau
- Provisions are needed worse than fortifications: slave impressment and Confederate agriculture
- To equalize the burden: slave impressment and the expanding Confederate state, 1863-1864
- The president's mishap: from engineer laborers to potential Confederate soldiers, 1864-1865
- Epilogue: Black Confederates' slave impressment and Confederate memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (213-225)and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469610740
- 1469610744
- OCLC:
- 838415632
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