Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia

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		by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.
		447 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 • Paper $19.50
		ISBN 0-8139-1545-7
		On the eve of the Civil War, more African-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state—490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks—and they were active participants in the single most dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia is the first comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history and culture. Through it we witness every aspect of black life: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations but also munitions factories in Richmond; as wartime Union spies and as soldiers in the Confederate army.
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		"Jordan is the first scholar to understand and explain slaves who fought for the Confederacy, amd his portrayal of those who fought for freedom is equally compelling. Written with grace and empathy, this book will become a landmark in Civil War scholarship" —John Y. Simon, Ulysses S. Grant Association, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale "Based on remarkably thorough research, Blackl Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia deserves a wide readership. It represents a significant step forward in writing a racially inclusive history of our Civil War. We owe Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., our thanks." —Reid Mitchell, Lincoln Prize winner "This book will be important not only because it tells us more than we knew before about the black experience but also because it explores topics rarely or never treated in previous scholarship. Jordan's thorough and sensitive examination of the collaboration of black Virginians with both sides in the Civil War is path-breaking and will become a landmark in literature." —Paul D. Escott, Wake Forest University
		The Author
		Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., is Assistant Professor and Associate Curator, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. He is author of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia in the Civil War and, with Herbert Thomas, Nineteenth Century Virginia Infantry.
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		Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. 447 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 • Paper $19.50 ISBN 0-8139-1545-7
		http://www.upress.virginia.edu/jordan.html
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