The Peninsula Campaign & the necessity of emancipation : African Americans & the fight for freedom /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brasher, Glenn David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
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Online Access:Full text (MCPHS users only) HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. An evening on Malvern Hill
  • Preludes: war, slavery, and the Virginia peninsula
  • Contraband of war: April-July 1861
  • War is a swift educator: July-December 1861
  • The best informed residents in Virginia: December 1861-April 1862
  • The monuments to Negro labor: April-May 1862
  • Those by whom these relations are broken: May 1862
  • An invaluable ally: late May-July 1862
  • A higher destiny: July 1862
  • Conclusion. Monarchs of all they survey.