Confederate Emancipation

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In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers and that "every slave in the South whoshall remain true to the Confederacy in this war" be freed. In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks closely at such Confederate plans to arm and free slaves. He shows that within a year of Cleburne's proposal, which was initially rejected out of hand, Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and Robert E. Lee had all reached the same conclusions. Atthat point, the idea was debated widely in newspapers and drawing rooms across the South, as more and more slaves fled to Union lines and fought in the ranks of the Union army. ...

subjects: African Americans,  Emancipation,  History,  Political aspects,  Politics and government,  Race relations,  Slaves,  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  Slaves, emancipation,  Confederate states of america, politics and government,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, african americans,  Sezessionskrieg,  Sklaverei,  Abschaffung,  Südstaaten,  15.85 history of America,  Slaves (economy),  Soldiers,  Esclaves,  Émancipation,  Noirs américains,  Relations interethniques,  Aspect politique,  Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865>,  Nonfiction,  Slaves, united states

Places: Confederate States of America,  Southern States,  United States

Times: 19th century,  Civil War, 1861-1865