Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War (Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era) - Image 1

£41.95

University of Virginia Press Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War (Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)

Name: Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War (Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)
Brand: University of Virginia Press
Price: 41.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

Slavery & Emancipation

Price History & Forecast

Last 90 days • 90 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 90 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £42 (90 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £42 - £42

Price levels: 1 different prices over 90 days

Description

The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery. Most Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders themselves, but they were products of the largest and most prosperous slaveholding civilization the world had ever seen, and they sought to maintain clear divisions between black and white, master and servant, free and slave. In Marching Masters Colin Woodward explores not only the importance of slavery in the minds of Confederate soldiers but also its effects on military policy and decision making. Beyond showing how essential the defence of slavery was in motivating Confederate troops to fight, Woodward examines the Rebels’ persistent belief in the need to defend slavery and deploy it militarily as the war raged on. Slavery proved essential to the Confederate war machine, and Rebels strove to protect it just as they did Southern cities, towns, and railroads. Slaves served by the tens of thousands in the Southern armies―never as soldiers, but as menial labourers who cooked meals, washed horses, and dug ditches. By following Rebel troops' continued adherence to notions of white supremacy into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, the book carries the story beyond the Confederacy’s surrender. Drawing upon hundreds of soldiers’ letters, diaries, and memoirs, Marching Masters combines the latest social and military history in its compelling examination of the last bloody years of slavery in the United States.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Virginia Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0813935415
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Slavery & Emancipation
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 March 2014
Listed Since: 01 December 2013

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Virginia Press Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War (Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War

Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era (Southern Dissent)

Emilie Davis's Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865

My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Interpreting the Civil War)

Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War

The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1861: A History of the South: 0006

Welcome the Hour of Conflict: William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama

The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Studies in Modern Capitalism)

The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture (Rewriting Histories)

Reconstruction: People and Perspectives (Perspectives in American Social History)

The American War: A History of the Civil War Era

Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (Early American Studies)

Slavery in the United States (Issues and Controversies in American History)

The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Ezra A. Carman’s Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam

The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Ezra A. Carman’s Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam

Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War (Working Class in American History)

A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters of Barham Bobo Foster and His Family, 1860–1863

The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army

Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and the Impending Crisis of the South (Southern Biography Series)

A House Divided – The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776–1865

Lyrical Liberators: The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831–1865

The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

John Dooley's Civil War: An Irish American's Journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment (Voices of the Civil War)