| Description |
xiv, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [354]-372) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- pt. 1. The Union, 1850 to 1860 -- Prologue : "We done now" -- 1. "Before their time" -- 2. "A grand man" -- 3. "The Union, gentlemen, the Union" -- pt. 2. The East, 1861 -- 4. "Worser for us than ever" -- 5. "They's folks!" -- pt. 3. The West, 1861 and 1862 -- 6. " Grant shelling the rebels!" -- 7. "The blood run deep" -- 8. "I couldn't leave" -- pt. 4. The East, 1862 -- 9. "This child just pray" -- 10. "A squally time" -- 11. "Ain't God the captain?" -- pt. 5. The West, 1863 -- 12. "I rejoiced all i could" -- 13. "Ungodly times" -- 14. "Ain't over yet" -- 15. "Running from the war" -- 16. "A drizzly day" -- pt. 6. The East, 1863 -- 17. "All the poor soldiers" -- 18. "Fearing and trembling" -- pt. 7. The West, 1864 -- 19. "Still I rebelled" -- 20. "A rugged cross" -- 21. "Don't want any such again" -- pt. 8. The East, 1864 -- 22. "All that killing" -- 23. "A most scandalous thing" -- pt. 9. Sherman, 1864 -- 24. "Ain't gonna be long now" -- 25. "What they care? " -- pt. 10. East and West, 1865 -- 26. "I have seen father Abraham" -- 27. " The plans of God" -- 28. "A tired old man" -- 29. "The row's end" -- 30. "Nowhere to go" -- 31. "I got my own again -- Epilogue : "All alike" -- Author's note : "We'll talk this story over" --- A directory of witnesses -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Index. |
| Summary |
The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.--From publisher description. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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Freed persons -- United States -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
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| ISBN |
9780618634002 |
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0618634002 |
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