Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War / Chandra Manning.
Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war, and they began running to the Union army. By the war's end, nearly half a million had taken refuge behind Union lines in improvised "contraband camps". These were crowded and...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2016.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Norlin Library - Stacks
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E453 .M24 2016
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