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by Bruce Levine


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In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers and that "every slave in the South whoshall remain true to the Confederacy in this war" be freed. In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks closely at such Confederate plans to arm and free slaves. He shows that within a year of Cleburne's proposal, which was initially rejected out of hand, Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and Robert E. Lee had all reached the same conclusions. Atthat point, the idea was debated widely in newspapers and drawing rooms across the South, as more and more slaves fled to Union lines and fought in the ranks of the Union army. ...

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We are going to make soldiers of some of our negroes if the war continues, a South Carolina secession leader warned a Philadelphian in January 1865.

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  • Title Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War
  • Author Bruce Levine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 2007-01-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195315868 / 0195315863
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.3 x 0.73 in (23.47 x 16.00 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.714

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Citations

  • Kliatt, 05/01/2007, Page 38

About the author

Bruce Levine is James G. Randall Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War and The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of Civil War, and is co-author of Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society.
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