The Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation African Americans and the fight for freedom / [electronic resource] :
Glenn David Brasher.
- 1st ed.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
- 288 p. : ill., maps.
- Civil War America .
- Civil War America. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: an evening on Malvern Hill -- Preludes: war, slavery, and the Virginia peninsula -- Contraband of war: April-July 1861 -- War is a swift educator: July-December 1861 -- The best informed residents in Virginia: December 1861-April 1862 -- The monuments to negro labor: April-May 1862 -- Those by whom these relations are broken: May 1862 -- An invaluable ally: late May-July 1862 -- A higher destiny: July 1862 -- Conclusion: monarchs of all they survey.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780807882528 (electronic bk.)
Peninsular Campaign, 1862. Slaves--Emancipation--United States.
United States--History--Participation, African American.--Civil War, 1861-1865