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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
June 10, 2008
Pages
386
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780618634002
ISBN-10
0618634002
Dimensions
1.50 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
1.45 lbs.
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Original list price
$28.00
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Summaries and Reviews
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The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freed
Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slavesâ War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nationâs bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history, Andrew Ward gives us the first narrative of the Civil War told from the perspective of those whose destiny it decided. Woven together from hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs, here is the Civil War as seen from not only battlefields, capitals, and camps, but also slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, farms, towns, and swamps. Speaking in a quintessentially American language of wit, candor, and biblical power, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to vivid life.
From slavesâ theories about the causes of the war to their frank assessments of such major figures as Lincoln, Davis, Lee, and Grant; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedomâs promise unfulfilled, The Slavesâ War is a transformative and engrossing vision of Americaâs Second Revolution.
Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slavesâ War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nationâs bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history, Andrew Ward gives us the first narrative of the Civil War told from the perspective of those whose destiny it decided. Woven together from hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs, here is the Civil War as seen from not only battlefields, capitals, and camps, but also slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, farms, towns, and swamps. Speaking in a quintessentially American language of wit, candor, and biblical power, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to vivid life.
From slavesâ theories about the causes of the war to their frank assessments of such major figures as Lincoln, Davis, Lee, and Grant; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedomâs promise unfulfilled, The Slavesâ War is a transformative and engrossing vision of Americaâs Second Revolution.
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Hardcover
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from Houghton Mifflin (June 10, 2008)
9780618634002 | details & prices | 386 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $28.00
About: The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freedGroundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slavesâ War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nationâs bloodiest conflict.
About: The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freedGroundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slavesâ War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nationâs bloodiest conflict.
Paperback
from Mariner Books (August 6, 2009)
9780547237923 | details & prices | 386 pages | 8.25 × 5.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.86 lbs | List price $15.95
CD/Spoken Word
With Richard Allen (other contributor) |
Mp3 una edition from Tantor Media Inc (July 1, 2008)
9781400156146 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $29.99
About: This is the first narrative of the Civil War told by the very people that it freed.
About: This is the first narrative of the Civil War told by the very people that it freed.
With Richard Allen (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (July 1, 2008)
9781400106141 | details & prices | 6.25 × 5.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.64 lbs | List price $39.99
About: This is the first narrative of the Civil War told by the very people that it freed.
About: This is the first narrative of the Civil War told by the very people that it freed.
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