Available for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition--letters, personal testimonies, transcripts, and records depicting the drama of Emancipation in the midst of the nation's bloodiest conflict. Drawn from the award-winning Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation.
These letters, personal testimonies, offical transcripts and other records convey the struggle of black men and women to overthrow the slave system, to aid the Union cause, and to give meaning to their newly won freedom in a war-torn nation.