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Author Taylor, Amy Murrell, author.

Title Embattled freedom : journeys through the Civil War's slave refugee camps / Amy Murrell Taylor.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
©2018

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.7115 T212e 2018    ---  Available
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Description xv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue -- Introduction -- Edward and Emma Whitehurst in slavery -- Securing work -- Finding shelter -- Confronting removal -- Eliza Bogan in slavery -- Facing combat -- Battling hunger -- Clothing bodies -- Gabriel Burdett in slavery -- Keeping faith -- Grappling with loss -- Epilogue.
Summary "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 Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war." -- Publisher's description
Subject United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Refugees.
Refugee camps -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
United States. Army. (OCoLC)fst00533532
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Refugee camps. (OCoLC)fst01092775
Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
Slaves -- Emancipation. (OCoLC)fst01120540
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628.
Added Title Journeys through the Civil War's slave refugee camps
ISBN 9781469643625 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1469643626 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781469643632 (ebook)
Standard No. 40028697412

 
    
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