Actions for Marching Masters : Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Marching Masters : Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War
- Author
- Woodward, Colin Edward, 1975-
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Series
- Contents
- "The question of slavery" : Confederate soldiers and the Southern cause, 1861-1862 -- Planters and yeomen, officers and privates : race, class and Confederate soldiers -- The greatest of masters : the Confederate Army and the impressment of black labor -- "Send me the negro boy" : Confederate soldiers and the need for slaves in camp -- "We crushed their freedom" : emancipation and the problem of slave loyalty -- On battlefields and in prisons : Confederate soldiers confront black Union troops -- Free to fight : the Confederate Army and the use of slaves as soldiers -- Relics of the antebellum era : Confederate soldiers and the postwar world -- Conclusion : "republics have proverbially short memories."
- Subject(s)
- Confederate States of America. Army—Military life
- Confederate States of America. Army
- 1800-1899
- Slavery—Southern States—History—19th century
- Soldiers—Confederate States of America—Attitudes
- HISTORY—United States—State & Local—General
- HISTORY—United States—Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- African Americans
- Armed Forces—Military life
- Military participation—African American
- Military policy
- Slavery
- Social aspects
- Soldiers—Attitudes
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Participation, African American
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—African Americans
- Confederate States of America—Military policy
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Social aspects
- États-Unis—Histoire—1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)—Noirs américains
- États-Unis—Histoire—1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)—Aspect social
- Southern States
- United States
- United States—Confederate States of America
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780813935423 (electronic bk.)
0813935423 (electronic bk.)
1306428661 (electronic bk.)
9781306428668 (electronic bk.)
9780813935416
0813935415 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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