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Slavery and freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War era / Jonathan A. Noyalas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noyalas, Jonathan A., Author.
- Series:
- Southern dissent.
- Florida scholarship online.
- Southern dissent
- Florida scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Free African Americans--Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans.
- Slavery--Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History--19th century.
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2021.
- Summary:
- This volume examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars have largely ignored the Black experience in the region until now. Correcting previous assumptions that slavery was not important to the Valley, and that enslaved people were treated better here than in other parts of the South, Jonathan Noyalas demonstrates the strong hold of slavery in the region. He explains that during the war, enslaved and free African Americans navigated a borderland that changed hands frequently - where it was possible to be in Union territory one day, Confederate territory the next, and no-man's land another.
- Contents:
- "In the Land of Bondage"
- "The Effect was Immediate"
- "To Call on All the Blacks"
- "The Servants . . . Could Not be Conveniently Stored Away"
- "Freedom to Slaves!"
- "This Causes Great Excitement"
- John Brown's "Soul is March[ing] On"
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 4, 2021).
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813057798
- 9780813067056
- 0813067057
- 9780813066868
- 0813066867
- OCLC:
- 1201692792
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