Category: Refugees
Book Review: Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor
Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor published by The University of North Carolina Press (2018) 363 pages 34.95…
Amy Murrell Taylor Wins Frederick Douglass Prize for “Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps”
Amy Murrell Taylor has won the Frederick Douglass Prize from Yale University for her new book “Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee…
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The New York Times Reviews New Harriet Tubman BioPic “Harriet”
Reviews are beginning to roll in for the new Harriet Tubman biopic “Harriet.” I will post excerpts and links to this Civil War and Reconstruction…
In May 1869 Republican Refugees Fled to Atlanta
Increasing violence in 1868 and 1869 led some white Republicans to flee the Southern countryside for the protection of Federal garrisons. This story recounts the…
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