Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation - Robert Franklin Durden - Hardcover

That the Confederacy in its waning days frantically turned to the idea of arming slaves has long been known by all close students of the Civil War. Yet the more explosive, if unexamined, issue before the southern people and leaders in this last great crisis was whether or not the South itself should initiate a program of emancipation as part of a plan to recruit black soldiers. Jefferson Davis and other leaders attempted to force the South to face the desperate alternative of sacrificing one of its war aims -- the preservation of slavery -- in order to achieve the other -- and independent southern nation.Durden, Robert F. is the author of 'Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation - Robert Franklin Durden - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780807102442 and ISBN 080710244X.