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.