The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves / Andrew Ward.
The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves / Andrew Ward.
The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves / Andrew Ward.
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Date
2008.
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N973.711/11
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 386 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. The Union, 1850 to 1860 -- Prologue: "We Done Now" -- 1. "Before Their Time" -- 2. "A Grand Man" -- 3. "The Union, Gentlemen, the Union" -- Pt. II. The East, 1861 -- 4. 'Worser for Us Than Ever" -- 5. "They's Folks!" -- Pt. III. The West, 1861 and 1862 -- 6. "Grant Shelling the Rebels!" -- 7....
Pt. X. 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.
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2008.
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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 la...
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The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves / Andrew Ward.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [354]-372) and index.
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N973.711/11
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74VMb6A0OwQy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMb6A0OwQy
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9780618634002
0618634002
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973.711
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991000716809702626
