The Black Experience in the Civil War South

by Stephen V. Ash

Book Overview

Large numbers of slaves worked for the Confederate war effort as wagon drivers, munitions factory workers, and officers' body servants. But contrary to popular wisdom, the number that actually bore arms for the Confederacy was negligible.The Black Experience in the Civil War South is the first comprehensive study of the Southern blacks' wartime experience to appear in a generation. Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this thematically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612346294
• ISBN13: 9781612346298
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"