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Martinez, Jaime Amanda.

Confederate slave impressment in the upper South [electronic resource] / Jaime Amanda Martinez. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Civil War America .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hundreds have been called: slave impressment at the local and state levels, 1861-1863 -- Throwing up breastworks: slave laborers under the Engineer Bureau -- Provisions are needed worse than fortifications: slave impressment and Confederate agriculture -- To equalize the burden: slave impressment and the expanding Confederate state, 1863-1864 -- The president's mishap: from engineer laborers to potential Confederate soldiers, 1864-1865 -- Epilogue: Black Confederates' slave impressment and Confederate memory.

ISBN: 9781469612591

Subjects--Topical Terms:
War and society--Confederate States of America.
Slavery--Confederate States of America.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Confederate States of America--Race relations.
United States--History--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E453 / .M263 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 973.7/415