Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia Ervin L. Jordan, Jr

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Ervin L.

Series:

Nation divided

Nation divided : new studies in Civil War history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Virginia--History--19th century.

African Americans.

Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

Virginia.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 447 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 1995.

Contents:

Heritage of servitude: slave life and labor on the plantation

The color of sweat: slave life and labor beyond the plantation

Many thousands gone: runaways and contrabands

Body and soul: health, education, and religion

Yours until death: sex, marriage, and miscegenation

A commonwealth of fear: wartime racism and race relations

Unequal justice: slaves, free Blacks, and the law

Grand and awful times: body servants at war

Troublesome elites: free Blacks as minority survivalists

Zealots of the wrong: Afro-Confederate loyalism

Uncommon defenders: Confederate States colored troops as the great white hope

Pledging allegiance: the coming of citizenship and the emancipation proclamation

Freedom fighters: Black union soldiers and spies

Babylon's fall: Afro-Virginians at the gates of freedom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389- 403) and index.

ISBN:

0813915449

0813915457 (pbk.)

OCLC:

30398693