In this Book
- Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
- 2019
- Book
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Civil War America
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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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- 1. The Camp Slaves’ War
- pp. 12-36
- 2. Camp Slaves on the Battlefield
- pp. 37-67
- 3. Camp Slaves and the Lost Cause
- pp. 68-99
- 4. Camp Slaves and Pensions
- pp. 100-122
- Conclusion
- pp. 177-184
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 185-188
- Bibliography
- pp. 209-220