The Price of : Slavery and the Civil War
Subtitle: Volume One: The Demise of Slavery
Contributors: Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor); Charles G. Waugh (Editor); Edna Greene Medford (Introduction)
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Published: 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9781581820850
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Slavery & emancipation; c 1800 to c 1900; History - Military / War; Civil War, 1861-1865; United States; History: American; USA; Slavery; United States - Civil War; African Americans; Emancipation; History; Slaves
First sentence: AS AMERICANS EMBARKED ON a four-year civil war, few could have imagined (including Frederick Douglass) the enormity of the destruction to human life and property or the irrevocable changes that the conflict would thrust upon the nation.