| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Armstead L. Robinson. Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865. (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series.) Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 352. $34.95.

This book is Armstead L. Robinson's long-awaited (and, sadly, posthumously published) contribution to the literature of Confederate defeat. For Robinson, the Confederacy died not of states' rights, democracy, or lack of material resources but of class conflict. Robinson argues that the Confederacy was unable to bridge the gap between the desires of planters to preserve their slave property at all costs and of yeomen to protect their families from the hardships of war. Again and again, the Confederate government protected the planters at the expense of the yeomen, who in turn retaliated by deserting the army in droves. More than any recent book about the Confederacy, this one brings together battlefield events, political maneuvers, and social history to paint a vivid portrait of a society in chaos.

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