Searching for black Confederates the Civil War's most persistent myth
"In addition to tracking the evolution of the black Confederate myth, Levin explores the roles that African Americans performed in the army with a particular focus on the relationship between officers and their personal body servants or camp slaves. In contrast to claims that these men served as sol...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Civil War America (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- The camp slaves' war
- Camp slaves on the battlefield
- Camp slaves and the lost cause
- Camp slaves and pensions
- Turning camp slaves into black Confederate soldiers
- Black Confederates on the front lines of the Civil War sesquicentennial.
