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Searching for Freedom After the Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: G. Ward Hubbs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-15 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon
Embattled Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Amy Murrell Taylor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-26 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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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 ar
South to Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Alice L Baumgartner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-10 - Publisher: Basic Books

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A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad t
New Orleans after the Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: Justin A. Nystrom
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom’s original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a diffe
Help Me to Find My People
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Heather Andrea Williams
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the
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