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The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
Houghton Mifflin
June 2008
On Sale: June 15, 2008
400 pages
ISBN: 0618634002
EAN: 9780618634002
Hardcover
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The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the
very people it freed Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War
delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest
conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century and
African-American history, Andrew Ward gives us the first
narrative of the Civil War told from the perspective of
those whose destiny it decided. Woven together from hundreds
of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs, here is the
Civil War as seen from not only battlefields, capitals, and
camps, but also slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, farms,
towns, and swamps. Speaking in a quintessentially American
language of wit, candor, and biblical power, army cooks and
launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the
war to vivid life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the war 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 slave South to the crushing
disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, The Slaves'
War is a transformative and engrossing vision of America's
Second Revolution.
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