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Confederate Emancipation - Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (Paperback, New edition)
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Confederate Emancipation - Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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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 who shall 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. At that 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. Eventually, the soldiers of Lee's army voted on the
proposal, and the Confederate government actually enacted a version
of it in March. The Army issued the necessary orders just two weeks
before Appomattox, too late to affect the course of the war.
Throughout the book, Levine captures the voices of blacks and
whites, wealthy planters and poor farmers, soldiers and officers,
and newspaper editors and politicians from all across the South. In
the process, he sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the
Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were
willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what
this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war
South.
Confederate Emancipation offers an engaging and illuminating
account of a fascinating and politically charged idea, setting it
firmly and vividly in the context of theCivil War and the part
played in it by the issue of slavery and the actions of the slaves
themselves.
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