Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865

by Armstead L. Robinson

Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson's magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War.

Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the Confederacy, still conclude that the South was defeated as a result of its losses on the battlefield, which in turn resulted largely from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081395228X
• ISBN13: 9780813952284
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"