How the slaves saw the Civil War
Subtitle: recollections of the war through the WPA slave narratives
By: Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach
Contributors: Eisnach, Dwight
Publisher: Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC; Praeger
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781440828232; 9781440828249
Subjects: History; African Americans; Slaves; Slave narratives; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Works Progress Administration narratives and the Civil War; title: Civil War living conditions for slaves; title: Ex-slave accounts of battles; title: Taking sides: acts of resistance and loyalty during the Civil War; title: Slave involvement with the union military; title: Slave involvement with the confederate military; title: The day the yankees came; title: How the slaves saw major figures of the war; title: Freedom and what came after.