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Kars, Marjoleine. "Policing and Transgressing Borders: Soldiers, Slave Rebels, and the Early Modern Atlantic." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 83, no. 3-4 (January 1, 2009): 191–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002451.

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In 1763, a regiment of mercenary soldiers stationed on the border of Suriname and Berbice in South America, rebelled. The men had been sent to help subdue a large slave rebellion. Instead, they mutinied and joined the rebelling slaves. This paper reconstructs the mutiny from Dutch records and uses it to look at the role of soldiers as border crosser in the Atlantic world. Colonial historians have usually studied soldiers in their capacity of border enforcers, men who maintained the cultural and legal divisions that supported colonial authority. However, as I show, soldiers with great regularity crossed those same borders, threatening the very foundations of colonialism.
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Fatah-Black, Karwan. "Slaves and Sailors on Suriname's Rivers." Itinerario 36, no. 3 (December 2012): 61–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115313000053.

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On transatlantic slave ships the Africans were predominantly there as cargo, while Europeans worked the deadly job of sailing and securing the vessel. On the plantations the roles changed, and the slaves were transformed into a workforce. European sailors and African slaves in the Atlantic world mostly encountered each other aboard slave ships as captive and captor. Once the enslaved arrived on the plantations new hierarchies and divisions of labour between slave and free suited to the particular working environment were introduced. Hierarchies of status, rank and colour were fundamental to the harsh and isolated working environments of the ship and the plantation. The directors of Surinamese plantations shielded themselves from the wrath of their enslaved by hiring sailors, soldiers or other white ruffians to act as blankofficier (white officer). These men formed a flexible workforce that could be laid off in case tensions on plantations rose. Below the white officers there were non-white slave officers, basjas, managing the daily operations on the plantations. The bomba on board slave ships played a similar role.
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Johnson, Marion. "The Slaves of Salaga." Journal of African History 27, no. 2 (July 1986): 341–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700036707.

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Salaga was one of the leading slave-markets of West Africa in the 1880s. The story of the slaves – where they came from, who brought them to Salaga, who bought them, and what happened to them afterwards – can be pieced together from the reports of a great variety of travellers, black and white, officials, soldiers, merchants and missionaries, of various nationalities, African and European. Thus, on the eve of the European occupation which put an end to it, it is possible to lift the veil that usually conceals the internal slave trade of pre-colonial Africa, and gain some idea of its scale and workings, and of the range of attitudes towards slavery and the slave trade.
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Wilkins, Charles L. "Slavery and Household Formation in Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 56, no. 3 (2013): 345–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341312.

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Abstract Focusing on a seventeenth-century Syrian city, this study examines the practice of slavery as a strategy for building elite households in the Ottoman Empire. After an overview of the slave trade and the social and political conditions which sustained it, it constructs a demographic profile of the slaves and slaveholders and concludes with case studies of how slaves were integrated into selected military-administrative, merchant and ulama families. Valued as servants, soldiers, companions, and business agents, slaves were integrated to a wide range of elite households, in some cases providing critical human resources for the households’ continuity.
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Beavis, Mary Ann. "Six Years a Slave: The Confessio of St Patrick as Early Christian Slave Narrative." Irish Theological Quarterly 85, no. 4 (August 17, 2020): 339–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021140020948324.

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This article interprets St Patrick’s Confessio, supplemented by his Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus, in the light of North American slave narratives, arguing that Patrick’s account of his enslavement in Ireland shares many of the characteristics of North American slave narratives identified by James Olney. In addition, Patrick’s account of his conversion shares all of the characteristics of North American slave conversions discussed by Albert J. Raboteau. As such, although not intended as such, Patrick’s confession can be described as the only extant example of an early Christian slave narrative, which makes it of great significance for the study of slavery in early Christianity.
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Lee, Chulhee. "Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Soldiers during the American Civil War." Social Science History 33, no. 4 (2009): 427–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014555320001107x.

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This article investigates patterns of socioeconomic difference in the wartime morbidity and mortality of black Union soldiers during the American Civil War. Among the factors that contributed to lower probabilities of contracting and dying of disease were lighter skin color, a nonfield occupation, residence on a large plantation, and residence in a rural area prior to enlistment. Patterns of disease-specific mortality and timing of death suggest that the differences in the development of immunity to disease and in nutritional status prior to enlistment were responsible for the observed socioeconomic differences in wartime health. For example, the advantages of light-skinned soldiers over dark-skinned and of enlisted men formerly engaged in nonfield occupations over field hands resulted from differences in nutritional status. The lower wartime mortality of ex-slaves from large plantations can be explained by their better-developed immunity and superior nutritional status. The results of this article suggest that there were substantial disparities in the health of the slave population on the eve of the Civil War.
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Campbell, Gwyn. "Slavery and Fanompoana: the Structure of Forced Labour in Imerina (Madagascar), 1790–1861." Journal of African History 29, no. 3 (November 1988): 463–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700030589.

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A recent school of historical thought has emerged, centred around the writings of Maurice Bloch, which asserts that the imperial Merina economy from the early nineteenth century became totally dependent upon slave labour. It claims that there was such an influx of slaves into Imerina that slave numbers rose dramatically and all free Merina were relieved from productive work to engage in essentially non-productive occupations, notably the military, imperial administration and commerce. This article, which traces the development of forced labour in Madagascar and examines the structure of labour under autarky, takes issue with this viewpoint. It emphasises not only that the slave population of Imerina in the nineteenth century was lower than asserted, but that Bloch misunderstands the nature offanompoanawhich, from the adoption of autarky in the mid-1820s, formed the organizing principle of most sectors of the imperial Merina economy outside subsistence agriculture. The impoverishment of the Merina economy which was a root cause of autarky led to a great decline in slave-holding amongst peasants who were in consequence largely obliged to work their own ricefields, either alone, or alongside the few slaves they managed to retain. By contrast, the Merina elite increasingly monopolized available labour resources, slave andfanompoana. Fanompoana, traditionally a limited form of prestation to the crown, was radically restructured under autarky between 1825 and 1861. Far from being ‘unproductive’, the imperial army, the largestfanompoanainstitution, constituted a huge and elaborate commercial organization which was used to exploit the empire's resources and channel them to the imperial heartland. At the same time,fanompoanaunits comprising Merina soldiers and colonists established farms and engaged in commerce in the provinces. Finally,fanompoanalabour was widely used on the east coast plantations, and especially in the attempt to forge an industrial revolution in Imerina. In sum, this article argues thatfanompoanarather than slavery formed the basis of the imperial Merina economy under autarky, ad was a major factor contributing to the failure of autarkic policies.
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Ching, Leo. "Champion of Justice: How Asian Heroes Saved Japanese Imperialism." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 126, no. 3 (May 2011): 644–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.3.644.

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With a catchy theme song and exotic scenery from the South, Kaiketsu Harimao (“Fast Thief Harimao”) made its debut in Japan on 5 April 1960. The first domestically produced television movie broadcast in color and the first to have locations overseas (notably in Angkor Wat), Harimao ran until June 1961, with a total of sixty-five episodes. Harimao opens with a procession of native men—their nativeness marked by their sarongs and painted dark skin—walking warily along the beach. They are vigilantly guarded by British soldiers with guns and whips to enforce the march. The opening scene not only establishes the exotic locale of the south but also accentuates the opposition between master and slave, between white and nonwhite races. As a soldier strikes down with a whip, the camera cuts to the lower torso of a man wearing a gun holster with a tiger-figured buckle and then moves up as the man pulls his gun and ires. Our hero wears a white turban and dark sunglasses. His shots send the soldiers' weapons flying. He mounts his horse as the camera zooms out to show him on a distant cliff, underscoring his extraordinary marksmanship. After the startled soldiers ask, “Who's there, who's that?” in unison with the hopeful natives, they shout, “Harimao, Harimao, it's Harimao!” and the airy and melodious theme song begins. As the credits roll, Harimao and his followers defeat the British soldiers and free the natives. The lead-in ends with the natives waving gratefully as Harimao and his men gallop off in triumph.
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schinto, jeanne. "““A Beriberi Heart””: Lessons from Slave Soldiers of World War II." Gastronomica 9, no. 4 (2009): 53–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2009.9.4.53.

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This article is a group portrait consisting of brief vignettes of three Americans who became prisoners of war and worked as slave laborers for Japanese corporations during World War II. It discusses the men's capture, their food deprivations, the effects of their malnutrition, their ways of coping with imprisonment, and their lives and attitudes toward food after liberation. The author visited with each of the men, all octogenarians living in San Diego County, California, at the time. One, in a wheelchair, was working as a national service director for American Ex-Prisoners of War; another was a retired businessman; the third, who remained in the military after the war, retired as a chief warrant officer, and had since spent a lot of his time in pursuit of physical fitness. Each of the men wrote about his experiences as a POW in both published and unpublished accounts, and this essay also quotes from those sources.
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Rustemov, Oleg D. "The rights of slaves in the Crimean Khanate and the conditions for their emancipation." Golden Horde Review 10, no. 3 (September 29, 2022): 715–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2022-10-3.715-727.

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Research objectives: The aim of this research is to study issues related to the legal status of slaves, as well as the terms and conditions of their release in the Crimean Khanate. Research materials: Individual research works on the topic of slavery in Ottoman Turkey and the texts of the Crimean Kadiasker books (sijils) in which slaves appear in connection with various legal proceedings related to them. Results and novelty of the research: Novelty lies in the fact that certain terms from the history of slavery in the Turkic Muslim states have been introduced into scientific circulation. For the first time in Russian historiography, the so-called guarantees (tedbir) of the liberation of slaves in the Crimean Khanate are described. The practice of announcing such “guarantees” to slaves finds its confirmation in court documents of the 17th century. The question of the existence of a limiting service life of slaves in the Crimean Khanate is considered. Also, for the first time, using historical evidence, the legal status of slaves has been studied, the relationship between slaves and masters has been examined, and other reasons for the release of slaves, not related to the end of their service, have been identified. As a result of this study, it is established that in the Crimea of the 16th-18th centuries, according to Muslim law, only prisoners of war captured in a war or on a campaign could become slaves. According to Sharia, Muslims could not be enslaved. This rule was strictly adhered to in the Crimea. We find confirmation of this fact in individual Crimean sijils where the fate of the Lipka Tatars who, being Muslims, were captured, brought to Crimea, and subsequently released. Such documents are examined here. The study has found that slaves were deprived of legal rights and had the status of mütekavvım mal – property permitted for use. They were part of the common property that could be sold, exchanged, donated, or used at the discretion of the owner. In yafts or lists of inherited property, slaves were listed, as a rule, among animals or other things. Sometimes slaves, at the request of their masters, received additional powers and became semi-free traders. A special category of slaves that stood out among others should be noted among the soldiers of the khan’s guard – kapy-kulu (literally – slave of the door/slave at the gate). This article determines that the normal life of a slave corresponded to a full six years. In addition to release on the grounds of seniority, other conditions for the release of a slave were also possible. Four types of tedbir and the conditions of kitabet, or an agreement on the independent redemption of oneself by a slave, are considered. Cases of the release of slaves on religious grounds are described, and the possibilities for them to go to court for legal assistance are described. All the facts of legal precedents given in the article are supported by information from the Crimean Cadi sijils. In conclusion, concepts are given regarding the system of slavery adopted in the khanate.
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Bollettino, Maria Alessandra. "Slavery, war, and Britain's Atlantic empire : black soldiers, sailors, and rebels in the Seven Years' War." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-543.

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This work is a social and cultural history of the participation of enslaved and free Blacks in the Seven Years’ War in British America. It is, as well, an intellectual history of the impact of Blacks’ wartime actions upon conceptions of race, slavery, and imperial identity in the British Atlantic world. In addition to offering a fresh analysis of the significance of Britain’s arming of Blacks in the eighteenth century, it represents the first sustained inquiry into Blacks’ experience of this global conflict. It contends that, though their rhetoric might indicate otherwise, neither race nor enslaved status in practice prevented Britons from arming Blacks. In fact, Blacks played the most essential role in martial endeavors precisely where slavery was most fundamental to society. The exigencies of worldwide war transformed a local reliance upon black soldiers for the defense of particular colonies into an imperial dependence upon them for the security of Britain’s Atlantic empire. The events of the Seven Years’ War convinced many Britons that black soldiers were effective and even indispensable in the empire’s tropical colonies, but they also confirmed that not all Blacks could be trusted with arms. This work examines “Tacky’s revolt,” during which more than a thousand slaves exploited the wartime diffusion of Jamaica’s defensive forces to rebel, as a battle of the Seven Years’ War. The experience of insecurity and insurrection during the conflict caused some Britons to question the imperial value of the institution of slavery and to propose that Blacks be transformed from a source of vulnerability as slaves to the key to the empire’s strength in the southern Atlantic as free subjects. While martial service offered some Blacks a means to gain income, skills, a sense of satisfaction, autonomy, community, and even (though rarely) freedom, the majority of Blacks did not personally benefit from their contributions to the British war effort. Despite the pragmatic martial antislavery rhetoric that flourished postwar, in the end the British armed Blacks to perpetuate slavery, not to eradicate it, and an ever more regimented reliance upon black soldiers became a lasting legacy of the Seven Years’ War.
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Allen, Judith Lee. "Tailors, soldiers, and slaves the social anatomy of a conspiracy /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/15737692.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987.
Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-97).
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Prince Estabrook: Slave and soldier. Lexington, Mass: Pleasant Mountain Press, 2001.

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Schiavone, Aldo. Spartaco: Le armi e l'uomo. Torino: G. Einaudi, 2011.

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1939-, Bernand Carmen, and Stella Alessandro, eds. D'esclaves à soldats: Miliciens et soldats d'origine servile, XIIIe-XXIe siècles. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006.

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Cathy Williams: From slave to female Buffalo Soldier. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002.

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Schiavone, Aldo. Spartacus. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Esclaves et maîtres: Les Mamelouks des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011.

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Zahn, Timothy. Dragon and slave: The third dragonback adventure. New York: Starscape, 2005.

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Voelz, Peter Michael. Slave and soldier: The military impact of Blacks in the colonial Americas. New York: Garland, 1993.

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Zahn, Theodor. Dragon and slave: The third dragonback adventure. New York: Starscape, 2005.

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ill, Floca Brian, ed. From slave to soldier: Based on a true Civil War story. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.

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Frenkel, Yehoshua. "Some Notes Concerning the Trade and Education of Slave-Soldiers during the Mamluk Era." In Mediterranean Nexus 1100-1700, 187–212. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.mednex-eb.5.112543.

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"Slave Origins." In West African Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army, 1860-1960, 31–55. Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24cnskd.7.

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"Ethos of the “Slave-Soldiers” Regime." In The Mamluk Sultanate, 53–79. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108557382.004.

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Winterbottom, Anna. "From Hold to Foredeck: Slave Professions in the Maritime World of the East India Company, c. 1660-1720." In Maritime History as Global History. Liverpool University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780986497339.003.0005.

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This chapter analyses slave professions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Indian Ocean. It explores the activities of the English East India Company in the Indian Ocean and the utilisation of slave labour within the company itself. It tackles the use of slaves in maritime industry; the obfuscation of slavery with titles that resembled employment; the movement and forced migration of slaves; the routes into slavery; methods of slave-stealing; and the slave professions - sailors, soldiers, interpreters, doctors, builders, gardeners, domestic slaves, and concubines. It concludes that slaves were a source of revenue for the company, and were forcibly relocated both to quell resistance and to further distribute and exploit their skillsets.
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Levin, Kevin M. "The Camp Slaves’ War." In Searching for Black Confederates, 12–36. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653266.003.0002.

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The chapter begins by stating that a widely circulated picture of a white soldier and a Black Confederate soldier is actually a photograph of Andrew Chandler and his family slave, Silas. Slaves were sometimes allowed to purchase military uniforms or were provided them by their masters, which explains why there are photographs of Black men in Confederate uniforms. At the onset of the war, Confederates believed they could offset the disadvantage of having a smaller population and less war-making power than the Union by utilizing slave labor. The government impressed enslaved people to work on earthworks, railroads, and weapon production. They also performed various jobs in camps such as cooking, performing music, and assisting in hospitals. White soldiers often brought slaves from home to act as personal servants. At times, the presence of personal slaves created class tensions within camps. Enslaved people often took on various tasks in camps for payment. While the shared experience of war likely brought the enslaved and their enslavers closer together, the racial hierarchy was strictly, and often violently enforced by the enslavers. Enslavers’ belief that their slaves were loyal to them and the Confederate cause sometimes caused emotional distress when a slave would run away or defect to the Union.
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Levin, Kevin M. "Turning Camp Slaves into Black Confederate Soldiers." In Searching for Black Confederates, 123–51. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653266.003.0006.

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By the 1990s, photographs of uniformed black men as well as pension applications in which the distinction between slave and soldier was sometimes clouded were perceived as evidence that there were large numbers of Black Confederate soldiers. In the late 1970s, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, became more aggressive in their claims that Black men enlisted in the Confederate army as the general public sought accurate information regarding the history of slavery. This interest intensified during the civil rights era as historians and Black Americans pushed back against the Lost Cause narrative, specifically the belief that enslaved population was loyal to their enslavers. The belief that there were willing, Black soldiers in the confederacy spread with the advent of the internet, as many people did not know how to vet sources. Additionally, films and other media blurred the distinctions between camp slaves and soldiers. Ultimately, false narratives made their way into textbooks and even historical sights.
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Asher, Brad. "Liberator." In The Most Hated Man in Kentucky, 64–91. University Press of Kentucky, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813181370.003.0005.

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Burbridge played a major role in ending slavery in Kentucky, although his contribution has historically been understated. He implemented the Lincoln administration’s decision to enroll and enlist black troops, which directly attacked slavery in Kentucky since slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers. Although not an emancipationist by nature, Burbridge issued the orders that allowed black enlistment, moderated Governor Thomas Bramlette’s hostility to the plan, utilized black troops, and protected black soldiers and their families. His actions created cracks in the slave system that African Americans blew wide open by their decisions to serve as soldiers.
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Levin, Kevin M. "Camp Slaves and the Lost Cause." In Searching for Black Confederates, 68–99. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653266.003.0004.

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In the post war years and into the early 20th century, former camp slaves began attending veteran reunions. For example, Steve Perry was a former camp slave who regularly spoke at United Confederate Veterans reunions. Former camp slaves often told embellished or fictional tales of their time during the war and perpetuated the loyal slave narrative. The loyal slave narrative accompanied the shift in the messaging of Lost Cause adherents from claiming slavery was beneficial for the Black race to the war was about states’ rights instead of slavery. Paintings, popular prints, and stories of camp slaves found in magazines, published reminiscences of former Confederate soldiers, promoted the narrative that Black and white southerners were united in their fight against the Union. Sometime former slaves played characters that reinforced the idea that Black people were contentedly deferential to whites. Overall, the genial reception of camp slaves at Confederate veteran reunions was not indicative of actual race relations in the post-war south.
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Gordon, Matthew. "The Religious Commitment of the ʿAbbasid “Slave Soldiers,”." In Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age, 128–30. University of California Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b742qw.26.

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Gerard, Philip. "The Last Hurrah of the Slavers." In The Last Battleground, 272–77. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649566.003.0039.

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In 1864, with the war going badly for the CSA, coastal slave-holders move their slaves to inland counties, where-because of manpower shortages-their labor fetches a premium. Speculators invest in slaves as a commodity, reaping large profits if they time the market right. Thus counties that had relatively few slaves before the war are now heavily populated with them. As news of the war reaches the enslaved blacks, more and more are acting defiant, anticipating the day of liberation. They actively subvert the Confederacy, aid escaping U.S. soldiers, and (according the one slave-holder) act in a “general spirit of devilment.” Liberation indeed comes, in the form of blue-coated troops, and the “investment” walks away to freedom.
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