Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era Noyalas Jonathan A.
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era Noyalas Jonathan A. The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through…
Specifikacia Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era Noyalas Jonathan A.
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era Noyalas Jonathan A.
The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through ReconstructionThis book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. He explains that during the war, enslaved and free African Americans navigated a borderland that changed hands frequently--where it was possible to be in Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars have largely ignored the Black experience in the region until now.Correcting previous assumptions that slavery was not important to the Valley, and that enslaved people were treated better there than in other parts of the South, Jonathan Noyalas demonstrates the strong hold of slavery in the region.