Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
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- ISBN: 9780307271204
- ISBN: 030727120X
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Physical Description:
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396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
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General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book" -- Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. Out of Egypt -- Grit and limits: experiencing emancipation in eastern contraband camps -- Constant turbulence: experiencing emancipation in western contraband camps -- Part II. By the sword -- Precarious routes to freedom: wartime emancipation in contraband camps -- Uneasy alliances: wartime citizenship in contraband camps -- Part III. Time in the desert -- Imperfect ploughshares: from military to civil authority, April-December 1865 -- Conclusion. |
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Subject: | Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects |
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