Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War by Chandra Manning

Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

Chandra Manning

416 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship. By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines, in what bec...

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