Paul David Escott

Paying Freedom's Price (eBook, PDF)

A History of African Americans in the Civil War

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or Lincoln's emergence as the great emancipator, Escott concentrates on the black military and civilian experience in the North as well as the South. He argues that African Americans-slaves, free Blacks, civilians, soldiers, men, and women- played a crucial role in transforming the sectional conflict into a war for black freedom. The book is organized chronologically as well as thematically. The chronological organization will help readers understand how the Civil War evolved from a war to preserve the Union to a war that sought to abolish slavery, but not racial inequality. Within this chronological framework, Escott provides a thematic structure, tracing the causes of the war and African American efforts to include abolition, black military service, and racial equality in the wartime agenda. Including a timeline, selected primary sources, and an extensive bibliographic essay, Escott's book will be provide a superb starting point for students and general readers who want to explore in greater depth this important aspect of the Civil War and African American history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216242635
• Artikelnr.: 74838158

Autorenporträt

Paul David Escott is the Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University. He has authored over a dozen books on Southern and Civil War history. Most recently, he has published Lincoln's Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era (2014); Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States (2014); and The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Forcing the Issue
Chapter Two: Forced to Serve the South, Desiring Freedom
Chapter Three: Fighting for Freedom, Equality, and the Union
Chapter Four: Fighting for Equality
Chapter Five: Facing a Difficult Future
Documents
Chronology
Selected Reading