1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480374103321

Autore

Woodford Frank B (Frank Bury), <1903-1967.>

Titolo

All Our Yesterdays : A Brief History of Detroit / / by Frank B. Woodford and Arthur M. Woodford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , 1969

©1969

ISBN

0-8143-4340-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

A Savoyard book

Disciplina

977.4/34

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Detroit (Mich.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 388.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792454603321

Autore

Ash Stephen V

Titolo

The Black experience in the Civil War South [[electronic resource] /] / Stephen V. Ash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif., : Prager, c2010

ISBN

1-282-48623-3

9786612486234

0-313-04204-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Collana

Reflections on the Civil War era

Disciplina

973.70896

Soggetti

African Americans - Southern States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Southern States - History - 19th century

Slavery - Southern States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - Southern States

Plantation life - Southern States - History - 19th century

Southern States Social conditions 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Freedom Delayed; Chapter Two: Life and Labor on the Land; Chapter Three: Beyond the Plantation; Chapter Four: Gaining Freedom; Chapter Five: Experiencing Freedom; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Black Experience in the Civil War South is the first comprehensive study of the Southern black wartime experience to appear in a generation. Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this thematically organized book does justice to the richness of its subject, looking at the lives of blacks in the Confederate states and the nonseceding Southern states; at blacks on farms and plantations and in towns and cities; at blacks employed in industry and the military; and at black men, women, and children. ||Drawing on memoirs, autobiographies, and other original source materials, the author detai