How the slaves saw the Civil War : recollections of the war through the WPA slave narratives / Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Covey, Herbert C.
Other Authors: Eisnach, Dwight
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2014]
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
Enslaved persons > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slave narratives > United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Physical Description:xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.