'Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War' Houses

'Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War' HousesFrom the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union armys escaped slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war they knew was coming, and they began running to the Union army. By the wars end, nearly half a million had taken refuge behind Union lines in

While the style of these farmhouses show wonderful diversity

exceptional educational opportunities

leaving an indelible imprint on the culture

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and they peopled vulnerable frontiers from New England to Suriname

Do spirits still stalk the Hudson River Valley

the role of the militia

Envisioning Emancipation

the twentieth-century Hudson River Valley was a hotbed of wealth

English and Welsh descendants in parts of Pennsylvania play the game with the hob set at a slight angle on a slate board instead of a clay bed because they resided in "the slate belt

descending from the protection of the wooded peaks