Refugee Camps on U.S. Soil: Exiting Slavery and Remaking Citizenship in Civil War Contraband Camps

Authors

Chandra Manning, Georgetown University

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Description

Dr. Manning is a historian of slavery and the Civil War who focuses on the experience of ordinary Americans, both black and white, during the war. Her first book, What This Cruel War Was Over(2007), won the Avery O. Craven Prize which is awarded by the Organization of American Historians for the most original non-military history on the Civil War Era. Her most recent book, Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War (2016), which examines the experience of former slaves who fled to Union lines during the war and in the process shaped the course of the war and of emancipation, won the Jefferson Davis Prize awarded by the American Civil War Museum for best book on the Civil War.

Publication Date

4-19-2023

Relational Format

presentation

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Additional files include: event poster

Recommended Citation

Manning, Chandra, "Refugee Camps on U.S. Soil: Exiting Slavery and Remaking Citizenship in Civil War Contraband Camps" (2023). Burnham Lecture in Civil War History. 10.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/burnham_lecture/10