Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South

“Martinez has produced a work with which all those who question Confederate nationalism and the efficiency of the Confederate government must reckon.” — Virginia Magazine

“Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” — CHOICE

“Anyone whose fields include slavery or the Civil War should read this book. . . . Martinez’s book also stands to serve as a valuable and necessary corrective to enduring popular myths concerning some of the most significant events and developments in southern history.” — American Historical Review

“Not only important for scholars interested in understanding how impressment should be situated in a larger governmental balancing act between the home front and the front lines but also in comprehending how integral slave labor was to the economic vitality of the Confederacy.” — Journal of American History

“A valuable addition to Confederate scholarship and part of a growing trend that focuses less on the top-down nature of the centralized Confederate state and investigates a more realistic understanding of the cooperation necessary between Richmond, the states, and the citizens.” — Journal of Southern History

“An essential study in the relationship between Confederate society, the Confederate military, and the Confederate state.” — Civil War Book Review

“[Historians] will appreciate [Martinez’s] book as the most extensive and detailed study of this important subject.” — Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“[A] fresh look at a confederate governance.” — Southern Pines Pilot

“More studies like Martinez’s are needed to open unexplored avenues into Confederate economic and political history.” — America’s Civil War

“A detailed and suggestive analysis of the relevance of slave labor to the failure and success of the Southern war effort and to the economic and social history of the Confederacy.” — Michigan War Studies Review