Last Road To Freedom
Rethinking
Emancipation...Restoring families!
America's
Civil War Contraband Camps
"Contraband Camp," is it a household word?
Most Americans have never
heard of contraband camps, and lack of knowledge concerning the role the camps
played in shaping the African American transition to freedom is unfortunate. By
some estimates, between 800,000 to one million people--roughly twenty to
twenty-five percent of the four million African Americans still enslaved in
1860--left the farms or plantations on which they had been held in bondage,
crossing into Union army lines. One observer wrote of the deluge of blacks
moving physically across the southern landscape: "Their comings were like
the arrival of cities."
Read more of what site founder Dr. Alisea Williams
McLeod has put together at: http://bit.ly/fF8eyj
