Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War VirginiaOn the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- and they were active participants in the single most dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia is the first comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history and culture. Through it we witness every aspect of black life: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations but also in munitions factories in Richmond; as wartime Union spies and as soldiers in the Confederate army. |
Contents
Slave Life and Labor on the Plantation | 27 |
Slave Life and Labor beyond the Plantation | 49 |
Runaways and Contrabands | 69 |
Health Education and Religion | 91 |
Sex Marriage and Miscegenation | 119 |
Wartime Racism and Race Relations | 136 |
Slaves Free Blacks and the Law | 155 |
Body Servants at War | 185 |
Free Blacks as Minority Survivalists | 201 |
AfroConfederate Loyalism | 216 |
Confederate States Colored Troops as the Great | 232 |
The Coming of Citizenship and the Emancipation | 252 |
Black Union Soldiers and Spies | 264 |
AfroVirginians at the Gates of Freedom | 291 |
Epilogue | 308 |
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