The Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation [electronic resource] : African Americans and the fight for freedom / Glenn David Brasher.

Introduction: an evening on Malvern Hill
Preludes: war, slavery, and the Virginia peninsula
Contraband of war: April-July 1861
War is a swift educator: July-December 1861
The best informed residents in Virginia: December 1861-April 1862
The monuments to negro labor: April-May 1862
Those by whom these relations are broken: May 1862
An invaluable ally: late May-July 1862
A higher destiny: July 1862
Conclusion: monarchs of all they survey.