Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps

by Amy Murrell Taylor

Book Overview

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661594
• ISBN13: 9781469661599
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"