Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)

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 th…

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