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From: Arleigh Birchler <>
Subject: slaves and books
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:34:15 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <E1BNPE9-00077o-00@conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net>


Rhonda,

Thanks for the list of books. Hope you got the one I sent you. I thought Ira Berlin's book was really great. Another I liked, on a slightly different topic, was "Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia." It is one of the few books I have seen on the topic that takes a balanced view and isn't pro one side or the other. "American Slavery American Freedom" is a good history of colonial Virginia, but has little or nothing to do with Missouri, and less to do with African Slavery.

Some books I might not have included in the list I sent you were "The Devil Knows How to Ride", and a good, short history of the aux Arcs Civil War. There is a pretty good history of Cass County written in the late nineteenth century by an author who was a close friend of some of my ancestors. I'm rambling. I will try to update and complete my reference list soon, and look at some of the books you mentioned.

Arleigh

Rhonda Houston <> wrote:
Sorry, forgot this one:

"Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil
War"
by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel ISBN: 0-8126-9311-6 (hardback) 0-8126-9312-4
(paperback)
Every word documented, heavy concentration on international slavery, the
Confederacy, which includes Missouri and all other slave holding, selling,
states within the Union...every word is documented and every chapter has a
bibliography at the end of it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rhonda Houston [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 11:41 PM
To: 'David Cierpiot'; ''
Subject: RE: [MO-CW] slaves

Here's what I ask for since it was easy to find online and a few other
resources/sources to go to having to do with slaves, and not only in
Missouri, but throughout the whole South and North:

Black Flag : Guerilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865 Thomas
Goodrich
It can be obtained also online for $12.95
ISBN: 0253213037
Format: Paperback, 196pp
Pub. Date: January 1999 Publisher: Indiana University Press

Here are some others with which you can wet your appetite for the subject of
Slaves.

"Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America"
by Ira Berlin ISBN # 0-674-81092-9 Goes into detail, with everything
documented with a bibliography that would knock your eyes out, and of
course, Missouri is included with all the other Southern states and those in
the North as well.

"An Empire for Slavery: the Peculiar Institution in Texas 1821 - 1865"
by Randolph B. Campell ISBN# 0-8-71-1505-3 (hardback) #0-8071-1723-4
(paperback) The state of Missouri included and everything is documented with
an awesome bibliography.


"Slavery Attached: Souther Slaves and Their Allies 1619 - 1865" by Merton L.
Dillon
ISBN# 0-8071-1614-9 (hardback) 0-8071-1653 (paperback)
Documentation and bibliography is awesome and of course, Missouri is noted
well within.


"The Negro Revolution" by Robert Goldston Library of Congress # 68-12088
which your librarian can convert the Lib of Congress # into an International
Standard Book Number for you...that's why they went to school so long.
Missouri is heavily included as well as all the other southern states.


And probably, one of the best, informative books I believe out there,
"Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand" edited by James M.
McPherson and William J. Cooper, Jr. ISBN# 1-57003-259-9 It was written for
as the book states within the first introductional page "For All
Participants in the Quest." Awesome because it covers everything that
anyone would discuss, ask about, heard about and wanted to know more about,
and supplies the fullest bibliography and documentation I've seen in a long,
long time.

I know Desoto Joe would be proud of this list and has probably read most of
these written concerning Missouri and the civil war.
Rhonda Houston













-----Original Message-----
From: Rhonda Houston [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:43 PM
To: 'David Cierpiot'; ''
Subject: RE: [MO-CW] slaves

Mr. Cierpiot,
Can you provide the ISBN# (International Standard Book Number) of this book
(which is always on the title page of the book) so any person wanting to
obtain this book via their library which would assist their local librarian
to locate it within either their local or state wide library system???
Rhonda Houston

-----Original Message-----
From: David Cierpiot [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 8:08 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] slaves

Check out the book "Black Flag". It will give you alot of answers as to
what was going on here in Missouri and why.

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