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Searching for Black Confederates - The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth (Paperback)
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Searching for Black Confederates - The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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Discovery Miles 5 530
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of
websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere
between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought
willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M.
Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would
have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself.
Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly
understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations
helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin
shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers
largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a
significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a
rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights
and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African
Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including
personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that
regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march,
and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even
long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other
writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers,
an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs
counter to history.
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