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“Wherever slave owners tried to evacuate themselves and their slaves, the goal was to keep the workers who carried the most capital value and the Yankees away from each other.”
― Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
― Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
“By war’s end, well over 400,000—somewhere between 12 and 15 percent of the entire U.S. slave population according to the 1860 census—had taken refuge behind Union lines, most of them in contraband camps.”
― Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
― Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
“the idea that the U.S. government would treat with an enslaved person directly as a person and not indirectly as the possession of a white property owner simply made no sense. Yet here were hundreds, and then thousands, and then tens of thousands, and finally hundreds of thousands of exactly such people, right in the lap of the Union army, the most obvious embodiment of the U.S. government outside the White House”
― Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
― Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
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