Description
On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-American citizens lived in Virginia than in every other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- they usually were active participants within the single such a lot dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia is the primary comprehensive take a look at of Civil War Afro-Virginian history and culture. Through it we witness each and every aspect of black life: slave and free; rural and concrete; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations but in addition in munitions factories in Richmond; as wartime Union spies and as soldiers within the Confederate army.