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Marching masters : slavery, race, and the Confederate army during the Civil War Cover Image Book

Marching masters : slavery, race, and the Confederate army during the Civil War / Colin Edward Woodward.

Woodward, Colin Edward, 1975- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780813935416
  • ISBN: 0813935415
  • Physical Description: x, 283 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-274) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"The question of slavery" : Confederate soldiers and the Southern cause, 1861-1862 -- Planters and yeomen, officers and privates : race, class and Confederate soldiers -- The greatest of masters : the Confederate Army and the impressment of black labor -- "Send me the negro boy" : Confederate soldiers and the need for slaves in camp -- "We crushed their freedom" : emancipation and the problem of slave loyalty -- On battlefields and in prisons : Confederate soldiers confront black Union troops -- Free to fight : the Confederate Army and the use of slaves as soldiers -- Relics of the antebellum era : Confederate soldiers and the postwar world -- Conclusion : "republics have proverbially short memories".

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