Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Author: Ervin L. Jordan
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780813915456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the role of Afro-Virginians in the Civil War.
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Searching for Black Confederates
Author: Kevin M. Levin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2019-08-09
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1469653273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.
The Confederate Negro
Author: James H. Brewer
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780817354862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA superb work in the social history of American industry A Gettysburg College "Top 200 Civil War Books" selection Mayflower Award Winner for 1970
Slavery and the Making of America
Author: James Oliver Horton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0195304519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion volume to the four-part PBS series on the history of American slavery--narrated by Morgan Freeman and scheduled to air in February 2006--illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through the stories of the slaves themselves. Features 120 illustrations.
Black Southerners in Confederate Armies
Author: Charles Kelly Barrow
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781589804555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle has been written about the military role of African Americans in military campaigns of the United States despite the fact that men and women of color were involved in all national conflicts beginning with the Revolutionary War. Indeed, the thought of black men and women serving the Confederacy during the Civil War is difficult for some to believe because it appears to be a paradox. Yet the surviving narratives, writings of Civil War veterans and their family members, county histories, newspaper articles, personal correspondence, and recorded tributes to black Confederates, offer heartfelt sentiments and historical information that cannot be ignored--and demonstrate that they did serve the Confederacy as soldiers, bodyguards, sailors, construction workers, cooks, and teamsters. Since his 1995 publication of Forgotten Confederates: An Anthology about Black Southerners, author Charles Kelly Barrow has continued to collect source material for this second volume. Subscribers of Confederate Veteran magazine responded to Barrow's classified ads, and excerpts from other publications such as the Journal of Negro History (Vol. IV, July 1919) and Smithsonian Magazine (March 1979) are included here. One excerpt includes the surprising testimony by black Confederate Eddie Brown Page III for the U.S. District Court that helped determine if the Confederate battle emblem should be removed from the Georgia state flag. After Sergeant Page's testimony, the case was later dismissed. Full of surprising anecdotes, eloquent statements, tragic testaments, and admirable accounts of those blacks who fought for and with the South, this collection deserves a place on the shelf of anyone interested in the Civil War's lesser known aspects.
"Myne Owne Ground"
Author: T. H. Breen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0195175379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
Black Confederates
Author: Charles Kelly Barrow
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781565549371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains correspondence, military records, and reminiscences from brave men who served what they considered their country.
Black, Blue & Gray
Author: James Haskins
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn historical account of the role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War.
The Afro-Yankees
Author: Robert J. Cottrol
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In time for Brazil's hosting of the 2014 World Cup, this book uses the stories of star players and other key figures (based on over 40 interviews) to create a contemporary history of Brazilian soccer from the 1950s to the present. It also explores race and class tensions in Brazil and shows how soccer is central to the country's dramatic trajectory toward modernity and economic power"--
Blacks in Gray Uniforms
Author: Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2018-06-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ground-breaking book takes an insightful and close "New Look" at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War--the long-overlooked battlefield contributions of the most forgotten fighting men of the Civil War, Black Confederates. With the release of the popular 1989 film Glory, the American public first learned about the heroism of the black troops of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and their courageous assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in July 1863. But what the American public failed to learn in viewing this popular film was the equally compelling saga of Black Confederates, including at least one defender, a free black soldier of the 1st South Carolina Artillery who defended Fort Wagner in July 1863. Significantly, large numbers of Black Confederates, slave and free, had already been fighting on battlefields across the South for more than two years before the famous assault of the 54th Massachusetts on Fort Wagner, including the war's first major battle at Bull Run. Although the vast of majority blacks served the Confederacy in menial and support roles, Black Confederates, free and slave, fought from 1861 to 1865 in regiments (infantry, cavalry, and artillery) that represented every Southern state.
