Promotional Information

The first book of its kind to appear in a generation, this comprehensive study details the experiences of the black men, women, and children who lived in the South during the traumatic time of secession and civil war.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Freedom Delayed
Chapter Two: Life and Labor on the Land
Chapter Three: Beyond the Plantation
Chapter Four: Gaining Freedom
Chapter Five: Experiencing Freedom
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

About the Author

Stephen V. Ash is professor of history at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Reviews

… this is an ideal primer for a college-level US history survey. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate collections.
*Choice*

Encompassing erudition deserving of a wide audience of scholars and students, The Black Experience in the Civil War South is a fine continuance of the scholarly trend of slavery studies focused on slaves, not masters. African American emancipation destablized the Confederacy and wreaked the greatest change on the peculiar institution since the invention of the cotton gin.
*Journal of American History*

Ash succeeds both in summarizing major developments and in offering the 'fresh look' promised by the series.
*The Journal of Southern History*