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A fascinating and original family portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and exactly how they designed the course of emancipation and black citizenship. By the end of the Civil Battle, nearly half of a million slaves possessed taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps". They were packed, dangerous places, yet some 12 to 15 percent of the Confederacy's slave populace got almost unimaginable dangers to attain them, plus they became the first places Northerners came to know ex - slaves en masse. Ranging from stories of individuals to those of armies on the road to the debates in Congress, Stressed Refuge probes the actual camps were enjoy and how ex - slaves and Union soldiers warily united there. This alliance, which would outlast the conflict, helped to demolish slavery and defend against the interestingly tenacious threat of reenslavement. But it also brought up unsettling questions about the partnership between American civil and armed forces authority and reshaped this is of American citizenship to the power as well as the prolonged cost of African Americans.
