Title from Playaway label. Release date supplied by publisher. "Playaway. Audiobooks. Pre-loaded and portable."--Container. Previously released by Tantor Media, Inc., p2008. "Tantor Audio"--Container. In container (21 x 13 x 3 cm.) with earphones, AAA battery and lanyard. Read by Richard Allen.
Summary:
The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From the slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.
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