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Confederate slave impressment in the upper South / Jaime Amanda Martinez.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Martinez, Jaime Amanda (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
Slavery > Confederate States of America.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
War and society > Confederate States of America.
Confederate States of America > Race relations.
African Americans.
Race relations.
Slavery.
War and society.
United States.
United States > Confederate States of America.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Hundreds have been called: slave impressment at the local and state levels, 1861-1863
  • Throwing up breastworks: slave laborers under the Engineer Bureau
  • Provisions are needed worse than fortifications: slave impressment and Confederate agriculture
  • To equalize the burden: slave impressment and the expanding Confederate state, 1863-1864
  • The president's mishap: from engineer laborers to potential Confederate soldiers, 1864-1865
  • Epilogue: Black Confederates' slave impressment and Confederate memory.

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