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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves - Andrew Ward, Richard Allen
The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
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Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9781400136148 (1400136148)
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
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AmySea
AmySea rated it
4.0 The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
The Slaves' War does two very important things; firstly, it takes the Civil War and shatters any romanticism surrounding it. It wasn't romantic, it was an apocalypse. Secondly, it takes the institution of slavery and personalizes it. In this book slavery is not background to the Civil War. Inste...
michaelhartford
michaelhartford rated it
4.0 The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
A complex portrait of slavery arises from the accounts Ward gathers. We hear the voices of field slaves, who are viciously worked on the plantations; slaves from the manor houses who have internalized the mores and habits of aristocracy; and urban slaves who have a strange and attenuated sort of lib...
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