Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South By Jamie Amanda Martinez, University of North Carolina Press, 2014, $39.95 In his final annual message to the Confederate Congress in February 1864, President Jefferson Davis proposed that the government purchase 40,000 slaves to work mainly for the Engineer Bureau building fortifications. Upon the war’s end, they could …
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