The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom
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Dr. Glenn David Brasher is the 2013 recipient of the Wiley-Silver Prize for his book The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans & the Fight for Freedom. Brasher's research is a powerful reevaluation of the Peninsula Campaign and the push for emancipation. The campaign was General George B. McClellan's failed attempt to take Richmond, the Confederate capital. Brasher argues that the participation of enslaved African Americans in the campaign did more to enact emancipation than the Battle of Antietam, as previous historians have asserted. Northerners became increasingly sympathetic to emancipation as a necessity of the war effort after the Peninsula Campaign. The military action also spurred President Abraham Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Brasher successfully demonstrates the importance of the Peninsula Campaign and the participation of the enslaved in the war for their freedom.
Publication Date
10-1-2013
Relational Format
Book
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Recommended Citation
Brasher, Glenn David, "The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom" (2013). Wiley-Silver Prize. 11.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/wiley-silver/11
