The Preservation of Liberty

by Greenberg, Martin Harry

• ISBN13: 9781581820911
• ISBN10: 1581820917
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Cumberland House

Summary

Examines the effects of the war on Blacks in the South and in the North, including the war's impact on black civilians, the utilization of runaway slaves as workmen for the Union army, the end of slavery, the ramifications of freedom for those who had been freemen before the war, and the education of newly freed slaves.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Edna Greene Medford
Acknowledgments	xiv
Part 1: Freedom Proclaimed, Freedom Seized
``Beckoning Them to the Dreamed of Promise of Freedom'': African-Americans and Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation	5	(10)
Edna Greene Medford
The Civil War in Kentucky: The Slave Claims His Freedom	15	(14)
Victor B. Howard
``Uncle Billy'' Sherman Comes to Town: The Free Winter of Black Savannah	29	(16)
William A. Byrne
``We'll Hang Jeff Davis on the Sour Apple Tree'': Civil War Era Slave Resistance in Louisiana	45	(12)
Junius P. Rodriguez
Emancipation in Missouri	57	(16)
Michael Fellman
Part 2: From Fugitives to Contrabands to Freedpeople
Being Free: Black Migration and the Civil War	73	(20)
Allan Johnston
Nashville's Fort Negley: A Symbol of Blacks' Involvement with the Union Army	93	(14)
Bobby L. Lovett
Black Violence and White Response: Louisiana, 1862	107	(14)
William F. Messner
From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854--1865	121	(24)
Richard B. Sheridan
Part 3: Racial Attitudes on the Civil War Frontier
Civil War Kansas and the Negro	145	(10)
Albert Castel
The Negro in Wisconsin's Civil War Effort	155	(16)
Edward Noyes
Part 4: The Impact of War on Free People of Color
``I Was Always a Union Man'': The Dilemma of Free Blacks in Confederate Virginia	171	(14)
Edna Greene Medford
Humbly They Served: The Black Brigade in the Defense of Cincinnati	185	(16)
Edgar A. Toppin
Free Negroes and the Freedmen: Black Politics in New Orleans During the Civil War	201	(22)
Ted Tunnell
Part 5: Preparing For Freedom
Union Chaplains and the Education of the Freedmen	223	(8)
Warren B. Armstrong
Black Education in Louisiana, 1863--1865	231	(16)
William F. Messner
Notes on the Education of Negroes at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, During the Civil War	247	(12)
Sing-Nan Fen
The American Missionary Association and Black Education in Civil War Missouri	259	(12)
Joe M. Richardson
Part 6: The Quest For Self-Determination
Black Churches and the Civil War: Theological and Ecclesiastical Significance of Black Methodist Involvement, 1861--1865	271	(12)
Sandy Dwayne Martin
Sherman Marched---and Proclaimed ``Land for the Landless''	283	(16)
Howard C. Westwood
Part 7: African Americans and the Lincoln Legacy
Lincoln and Black Freedom	299	(18)
La Wanda Cox
Lincoln and Race Relations	317	(10)
Hans L. Trefousse
Notes	327	(66)
For Further Reading	393	(2)
Index	395