Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition / / Kirk Savage.
The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the New Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Exposing Slavery
- Imagining Emancipation
- Freedom’s Memorial
- Slavery’s Memorial
- Common Soldiers
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Illustration Credits