Title: The Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation
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.
Subjects: Emancipation, African American Participation, Peninsular Campaign, 1862, Slaves, History, Slaves, emancipation, united states, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, participation, african american
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865