Martinez, Jaime Amanda,

Confederate slave impressment in the upper South /Jaime Amanda Martinez. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource. - Civil War America .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Hundreds have been called: slave impressment at the local and state levels, 1861-1863 -- Throwing up breastworks: slave laborers under the Engineer Bureau -- Provisions are needed worse than fortifications: slave impressment and Confederate agriculture -- To equalize the burden: slave impressment and the expanding Confederate state, 1863-1864 -- The president's mishap: from engineer laborers to potential Confederate soldiers, 1864-1865 -- Epilogue: Black Confederates' slave impressment and Confederate memory.



9781469612591


Slavery--Confederate States of America.
War and society--Confederate States of America.


Electronic Books.

E453 / .C664 2013