Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia

On 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.


Author: Ervin L. Jordan
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 01/29/1995
Pages: 476
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.04h x 5.91w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780813915456
About the Author
Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., is Assistant Professor and Associate Curator, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. He is author of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia in the Civil War and, with Herbert Thomas, Nineteenth Virginia Infantry.