Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
Contents:
The Works Progress Administration narratives and the Civil War -- Civil War living conditions for slaves -- Ex-slave accounts of battles -- Taking sides: acts of resistance and loyalty during the Civil War -- Slave involvement with the union military -- Slave involvement with the confederate military -- The day the yankees came -- How the slaves saw major figures of the war -- Freedom and what came after.
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