Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America /

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America / / Kirk Savage.

The United States of America originated 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 that history of slavery...

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Savage, Kirk,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1997
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 67 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO. Exposing Slavery
  • CHAPTER THREE. Imagining Emancipation
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Freedom's Memorial
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Slavery's Memorial
  • CHAPTER SIX. Common Soldiers
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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