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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth [SIGNED] Hardcover - 2019

by Levin, Kevin M

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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author in ink to title page. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 228pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in red paper over boards with spine lettered in yellow. Bumps to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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.(Publisher).
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  • Title Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth [SIGNED]
  • Author Levin, Kevin M
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
  • Date 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9600
  • ISBN 9781469653266 / 1469653265
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.4 x 1 in (23.37 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects African American soldiers - History - 19th, United States - History - Civil War,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019002919
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.741

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