Confederate Emancipation Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War

Name: Confederate Emancipation Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780195315868

ISBN-10: 0195315863

ISBN-13: 9780195315868

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bruce Levine

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In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers and that "every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war" be freed. In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks closely at such Confederate plans to arm and free slaves. He shows that within a year of Cleburne's proposal, which was initially rejected out of hand, Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and Robert E. Lee had all reached the same conclusions. At that point, the idea was debated widely in…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.30" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction: The Puzzle of Confederate Emancipation



"A Desperate Expedient": The Heresy and Its Origins, 1861-1864



"What Did We Go to War For?": The Critics' Indictment



Black and Gray: Slaves and the Confederate War Effort



"We Can Devise the Means": The Long-Term Plan



"On the Footing of Soldiers": Enacting and Implementing New Policy, 1864-1865



"Like a Drowning Man Catching at Straws": Could It Have Worked?


Conclusion: From Black Troops to Black Codes: "Confederate Emancipation" in War and Peace


Acknowledgments


Notes


Sources Cited


Index