The Freedom They Claimed

Freedom was more than the end of ownership. It had to be sought, risked, protected, and made livable. Drawing on narratives, memoirs, letters, official records, and later recollections, David Fooks follows the voices of people who endured American slavery, resisted it, escaped it, and worked to build lives after emancipation. Their testimony illuminates family separation, childhood, labor, faith, learning, escape, the Civil War, and the continuing struggle to make freedom last.

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