The Confederate Negro;: Virginia's craftsmen and military laborers, 1861-1865 - Hardcover

Brewer, James H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822302047 ISBN 13: 9780822302049

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1969

Synopsis

Book by Brewer, James H

About this title

About the Author

James H. Brewer was a professor at North Carolina Central University until his death in 1974.

Review

“Brewer has brought to light creditably the little known contribution of the Virginia Negroes, free and slave, to the Confederacy. In so doing, he corrects a serious historical omission while delivering a telling blow to the destruction of the stereotyped southern Negro during the war . . . .  A milestone in the history of the period and essential to any serious study of the Civil War, the Negro, and the South.” —Journal of American History

“Brewer forcefully presents his main theme that the Virginia Negro ‘contributed a sustaining effort to the War for Southern Independence and an impressive mass of facts and statistics demonstrates that the Old Dominion’s more than half a million blacks made a vital contribution to the rebel cause. . . . Professor Brewer makes his point effectively and,  in the process, adds a new dimension to the measurement of the Confederate war effort. No historian of the Civil War era can afford to ignore this book, which sheds so much new light.” – Journal of Southern History

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822302047
• ISBN 13: 9780822302049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212