Slavery and War in the Americas

Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870

Vitor Izecksohn

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780813935850
• eBook ISBN: 9780813935867
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia della guerra civile americana

In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864–70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict in the history of the Americas. Like the Union in its conflict with the Confederacy, Brazil was faced with an enemy of inferior resources and manpower--in their case, Paraguay--that nonetheless proved extremely difficult to defeat. In both cases, the more powerful army had to create an elaborate war machine controlled by the central state to achieve victory.

While it was not the official cause of either conflict, slavery weighed heavily on both wars. When volunteers became scarce, both the Union and Brazilian armies resorted to conscription and, particularly in the case of the Union Army, the enlistment of freedmen of African descent. The consequences of the Union's recruitment of African Americans would extend beyond the war years, contributing significantly to emancipation and reform in the defeated South.Taken together, these two major powers' experiences reveal much about state building, army recruitment, and the military and social impact of slavery. The many parallels revealed by this book challenge the assumption that the American Civil War was an exceptional conflict.

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Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

Abaeté, Viscount of

abolitionism, abolitionists

Andrew as

in Brazil

Emancipation Proclamation and

gradual

Higginson as

Lovejoy as

movement for

Nabuco and

opposed

Port Royal Experiment and

societies of

white officers as

African Americans: camp deaths of

casualties of

changing status of

as citizens

Congressional Medal of Honor and

controversy over enlistment of

crossing Union lines

draft of

Dred Scott Decision and

emancipation of

federal control of

fragmentation of

impressment of

military pay of

population of

public opinion of

racism against

recruitment of

regiments of

rights of

as soldiers

as substitutes

agriculture: in Brazil

in Paraguay

recruitment and

slave labor in

war and

women in. See also names of crops

Agrippa, Menenio

Alagoas province

Alberdi, Juan Bautista

Alencar, José Martiniano de

Almeida, Felinto Henrique de

American Civil War (1861–65)

casualty figures of

compared to Brazilian war

civilians and

dynamics of

political engineering of

as reference for Brazil

shift in nature of

as total war

as war for freedom

as war for union

American Revolutionary War

Anaconda Plan

Andrew, Gov. John, of Massachusetts

Antietam, battle of

antimilitarism and anti-professionalism

Araújo, Nabuco de

Argentina

as ally

attacks on

black soldiers of

in Triple Alliance War

Arkansas

Army of the Potomac

Asunción, Paraguay

Bahia province

balance of power

Banks, Gen. Nathaniel P.

barons. See also bosses, local

Bastos, José Tavares

Battalions of Voluntários da Pátria

Beattie, Peter

Bellard, Alfred

Belmont, August

Benedict, Lt. Augustus

Benedictine Order

Berlin, Ira

Bernstein, Iver

Black Codes

blacks in Brazil

impressed

military service of

in segregated units

treatment of

in wars of independence

blacks in United States. See African Americans

Blancos

Blinn Reber, Vera

Bolívar, Simón

Bolivia

bonuses. See also bounties, enlistment

Border States

blacks recruited in

emancipation in

Emancipation Proclamation and

free blacks in

quotas i...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One Military Traditions Confront Mass Mobilization in the United States and Brazil
• Two The Crisis of the American Recruitment System: Union Army Recruitment, April 1861–July 1863
• Three From Inertia to Insurgence: The Crisis in Brazilian Recruitment, 1865–1868
• Four Forged in Inequality: The Recruitment of Black Soldiers in the United States, September 1862–April 1865
• Five Manumitting and Enlisting the Slaves in Brazil, December 1866–August 1868
• Conclusion: Processes, Effects, Distortions
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index