Through Jordan's narrative we witness every aspect of African American life in Virginia, both slave and free, during the civil war, from soldiers who fought in the Confederate and Union armies to those who acted as spies, as laborers in munitions factories, and those who labored on the home front in rural and urban areas.
Through Jordan's narrative we witness every aspect of African American life in Virginia, both slave and free, during the civil war, from soldiers who ...
A comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history. Every aspect of black life is examined: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations and in munitions factories; and as wartime Union spies and Confederate soldiers.
A comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history. Every aspect of black life is examined: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and batt...