Confederate Emancipation - Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War

Zusatztext ..no one since Robert F. Durden...has examined this broader issue with the kind of systematic and detailed attention that Bruce Levine provides in this slim but elegant book...Levine is thoughtful, authoritative and convincing. Informationen zum Autor Bruce Levine is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War and The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of Civil War, and is co-author of Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society. Klappentext In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the 'Stonewall of the West') proposed that 'the most courageous of our slaves' be trained as soldiers and that 'every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war' be freed. In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks closely at such Confederate plans to arm and free slaves. He offers an engaging and illuminating account of a fascinating and politically charged idea, setting it firmly and vividly in the context of the Civil War and the part played in it by the issue of slavery and the actions of the slaves themselves. Zusammenfassung In early 1864, Major-General Patrick of the Cleburne Confederate Army of Tennessee proposed that 'the most courageous of our slaves' be trained as soldiers and that 'every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war' be freed. This work looks at such Confederate plans to arm and free slaves.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Bruce Levine, Bruce (Professor of History Levine, Levine Bruce
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.12.2005
• EAN: 9780195147629
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514762-9
• Pages: 272
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800), Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery