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Brasher, Glenn David.

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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Participation, African American.--Civil War, 1861-1865

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E473.6 / .B73 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 973.7/415