Table of Contents:
  • A full realization of the barbarities of slavery
  • A time of scattering
  • Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and
  • Migration in the upper Midwest
  • To go and help be free: migration and the Black military experience
  • The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom
  • Freedom was all they had: civil rights and Northern reconstruction
  • Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history, commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.