The Slaves' War : The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves Paperback - 2009
by Andrew Ward
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Historian Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs to pen a poignant narrative of the Civil War as seen from not only battlefields, capitals, and camps, but from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, and fields as well.
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- Title The Slaves' War : The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
- Author Andrew Ward
- Binding Paperback
- Edition None
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, U.S.A.
- Date 2009
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0547237928I3N00
- ISBN 9780547237923 / 0547237928
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.32 x 0.99 in (20.27 x 13.51 x 2.51 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, United States - History - Civil War,
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.711
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Summary
In The Slaves’ War, the acclaimed historian Andrew Ward delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation’s bloodiest conflict. Woven together from hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs, here is a groundbreaking and poignant narrative of the CivilWar as seen from not only battlefields, capitals, and camps, but from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, and fields as well. Speaking in a quintessentially American language, body servants, army cooks, runaways, and gravediggers bring the war to life. From slaves’ theories about the causes of the CivilWar to their frank assessments of such major figures as Lincoln, Davis, Lee, and Grant; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the South to the crushing disappointment of freedom’s promise unfulfilled, The Slaves’ War is a transformative and engrossing chronicle of America’s Second Revolution.