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

byAmy Murrell Taylor

In Embattled Freedom, Amy Murrell Taylor presents a historical account centered on journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of history and social science. Rather than isolating its subject, the book shows how private experience and public systems continually influenced one another. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. Historical context and individual experience remain equally important to the book's explanation.

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9781469661599