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Slavery and War in the Americas - Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870 (Paperback)
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Slavery and War in the Americas - Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870 (Paperback)
Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new
light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly
similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance
of 1864-70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest
large-scale international conflict in the history of the Americas.
Like the Union in its conflict with the Confederacy, Brazil was
faced with an enemy of inferior resources and manpower--in their
case, Paraguay--that nonetheless proved extremely difficult to
defeat. In both cases, the more powerful army had to create an
elaborate war machine controlled by the central state to achieve
victory.While it was not the official cause of either conflict,
slavery weighed heavily on both wars. When volunteers became
scarce, both the Union and Brazilian armies resorted to
conscription and, particularly in the case of the Union Army, the
enlistment of freedmen of African descent. The consequences of the
Union's recruitment of African Americans would extend beyond the
war years, contributing significantly to emancipation and reform in
the defeated South.Taken together, these two major powers'
experiences reveal much about state building, army recruitment, and
the military and social impact of slavery. The many parallels
revealed by this book challenge the assumption that the American
Civil War was an exceptional conflict.
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