Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia

On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- and they were active participants in the single most dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia is the first comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history and culture. Through it we witness every aspect of black life: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations but also in munitions factories in Richmond; as wartime Union spies and as soldiers in the Confederate army.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Jordan, Ervin L.
Published: 01/29/1995
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813915449
Pages: 476
Weight: 2.21lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.48w x 1.45d