Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South (Civil War America)

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Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered regulate over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation. State and local officials cooperated with the Confederate War Department and Engineer Bureau, in addition to individual generals, to make sure a supply of slave labor on fortifications. The usage of the implementation of this policy in the Upper South as a window into the workings of the Confederacy, Jaime Amanda Martinez provides a social and political history of slave impressment. She challenges the assumption that the conduct of this system, and the resistance it engendered, was once an indication of weakness and highlights as an alternative how the strong governments of the states contributed to the war effort.
According to Martinez, slave impressment, which mirrored Confederate governance as a whole, became more and more centralized, demonstrating the efficacy of federalism inside the CSA. She argues that the ability of local, state, and national governments to cooperate and implement unpopular impressment laws indicates the overall strength of the Confederate government as it struggled to implement its independence.

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