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Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
de Levine, Bruce
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- 0195315863
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- 9780195315868
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. viii, 252 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, no dedication. A fine copy. "Confederate Emancipation offers an engaging and illuminating account of a fascinating and politically charged idea, setting it firmly and vividly in the context of the Civil War and the part played in it by the issue of slavery and the actions of the slaves themselves." - Publisher.. SIGNED. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Sinopsis
In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers and that "every slave in the South whoshall remain true to the Confederacy in this war" be freed. In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks closely at such Confederate plans to arm and free slaves. He shows that within a year of Cleburne's proposal, which was initially rejected out of hand, Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and Robert E. Lee had all reached the same conclusions. Atthat point, the idea was debated widely in newspapers and drawing rooms across the South, as more and more slaves fled to Union lines and fought in the ranks of the Union army. ...
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- Título
- Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
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- Levine, Bruce
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- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0195315863
- ISBN 13
- 9780195315868
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- Oxford University Press
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- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Tamaño
- 8vo
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