Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Amy Murrell Taylor -BH) vintage Shattered Lives

Shattered Lives

His letters also worked to reassure Betty with hopeful dreams for their future together

it's the true story of the three Supreme Court trials of the first slave freed by a young lawyer

Richard Sommers

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Amy Murrell Taylor -BH) vintage Shattered LivesEmbattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil Wars Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor 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 army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all.