Practical Liberators
Kristopher A. Teters
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The University of North Carolina Press
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains. But after Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act in 1862, army policy became mostly consistent in its support of liberating the slaves in general, in spite of Union army officers' differences of opinion. By 1863 and the final Emancipation Proclamation, the army had transformed into the key force for instituting emancipation in the West. However, Kristopher Teters argues that the guiding principles behind this development in attitudes and policy were a result of military necessity and pragmatic strategies, rather than an effort to enact racial equality.
Through extensive research in the letters and diaries of western Union officers, Teters demonstrates how practical considerations drove both the attitudes and policies of Union officers regarding emancipation. Officers primarily embraced emancipation and the use of black soldiers because they believed both policies would help them win the war and save the Union, but their views on race actually changed very little. In the end, however, despite its practical bent, Teters argues, the Union army was instrumental in bringing freedom to the slaves.
Kundenbewertungen
army officers’ attitudes toward emancipation, emancipation, Samuel Curtis, emancipation in Border States, William S. Rosecrans, confiscation, Ulysses S. Grant, racial views, Don Carlos Buell, slaves in Union lines, William T. Sherman, conflict within Union army, black servants, Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaign, Nathaniel Banks, Civil War, Western Theater, Sherman’s March to the Sea, slavery, Benjamin Butler, African American soldiers, Henry Halleck, Union Army, Union officers, Vicksburg Campaign