Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) and index.
Contents
A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and -- Migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history -- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.
Reproduction
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