The Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation
Subtitle: African Americans and the fight for freedom
By: Glenn David Brasher
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780807835449
Subjects: Emancipation; African American Participation; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Slaves; History
Description: "[The author's] narrative history delves into African American involvement in this pivotal military event, demonstrating that blacks contributed essential manpower and provided intelligence that shaped the campaign's military tactics and strategy and that their activities helped to convince many Northerners that emancipation was a military necessity"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an evening on Malvern Hill; title: Preludes: war, slavery, and the Virginia peninsula; title: Contraband of war: April-July 1861; title: War is a swift educator: July-December 1861; title: The best informed residents in Virginia: December 1861-April 1862; title: The monuments to negro labor: April-May 1862; title: Those by whom these relations are broken: May 1862; title: An invaluable ally: late May-July 1862; title: A higher destiny: July 1862; title: Conclusion: monarchs of all they survey.