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Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps

by Amy Murrell Taylor

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. Dra

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9781469661599