Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia / Ervin L. Jordan, Jr

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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 --; 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

1995

19th century

Civil War, 1861-1865

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