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Saving Savannah : the city and the Civil War Cover Image Book

Saving Savannah : the city and the Civil War / Jacqueline Jones.

Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- (Author).

Summary:

A panoramic portrait of the city of Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War--a poignant story of the African American freedom struggle in this prosperous southern riverport, set against a backdrop of military conflict and political turmoil.--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1400042933
  • ISBN: 9781400042937
  • Physical Description: viii, 510 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
With Note:
MARCIVE 03/04/09
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-493) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Map of Savannah, Civil War Era x -- Antebellum -- Prologue: I Am in the Hands of Kidnappers 3 -- Chapter 1 Sell and Buy and Sell and Buy 25 -- Chapter 2 Our Common Master in Heaven 51 -- Chapter 3 A Demon Ready with Knife and Torch 71 -- Chapter 4 Let's See Her Face 97 -- In Bello -- Chapter 5 An Abiding Hope in Every Breast 117 -- Chapter 6 As Traitors, They Go Over to the Enemy 140 -- Chapter 7 Are We Free? 164 -- Chapter 8 We Have Dyed the Ground with Blood 186 -- Postbellum -- Chapter 9 Way We Can Best Take Care of Ourselves 213 -- Chapter 10 For I Have a Great Deal to Do 233 -- Chapter 11 A Dream of the Past 259 -- Chapter 12 To Have a Big Meeting, a Big Shooting, or Big Blood 282 -- Chapter 13 Present Deranged System of Labor 302 -- Chapter 14 You Will See Them Studying 327 -- Chapter 15 I Came to Do My Own Work 346 -- Chapter 16 When You Leave Set Fire to All the Houses 369 -- Epilogue: Those Peaceful, Powerful Weapons 387.

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Slavery > Georgia > Savannah > History > 19th century.
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Freed persons > Georgia > Savannah > History > 19th century.
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Georgia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Savannah (Ga.) > Social conditions > 19th century.

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