| Description |
xv, 447 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Nation divided : new studies in Civil War history |
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A nation divided.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389- 403) and index. |
| 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 -- |
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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. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
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Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
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| ISBN |
0813915457 (pbk.) |
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0813915449 |
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