Confederate Emancipation
Subtitle: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
By: Bruce Levine.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780195147629
Subjects: Slaves -- Emancipation -- Confederate States of America; Slaves -- Confederate States of America -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Confederate States of America -- Politics and government; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans; Confederate States of America -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Description: "In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks closely at Confederate plans to arm and free slaves. Throughout the book, Levine captures the voices of blacks and whites, wealthy planters and poor farmers, soldiers and officers, and newspaper editors and politicians from all across the South. In the process, he sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war South."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.