Description: Embattled Freedom : Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps, Paperback by Taylor, Amy Murrell, ISBN 1469661594, ISBN-13 9781469661599, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Amy Murrell Taylor vividly reconstructs the human world of wartime emancipation, taking readers inside military-issued tents and makeshift towns, through commissary warehouses and active combat, and into the realities of individuals and families struggling to survive physically as well as spiritually. Narrating their journeys in and out of the confines of the camps, Taylor shows in often gripping detail how the most basic necessities of life were elemental to a former slaves quest for freedom and full citizenship.
The stories of individuals--storekeepers, a laundress, and a minister among them--anchor this ambitious and wide-ranging history and demonstrate with new clarity how contingent the slaves pursuit of freedom was on the rhythms and culture of military life. Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nations most destructive war.
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Book Title: Embattled Freedom : Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2020
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 19.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Amy Murrell Taylor
Book Series: Civil War America Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
