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Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863, many freed slaves escaped to the Union Army lines at Newbern -- wood engraving with modern color

Did the Civil War Achieve Equality? Stephen Kantrowitz’s ‘More Than Freedom’

Source: Daily Beast

Critic Herschthal reviews historian Stephen Kantrowitz’s 2012 book about the abolitionist leaders who fought for more than just the end of slavery before and after the Civil War.

This entry was posted in A New Birth of Freedom and tagged Historic Figures, History on April 1, 2018 by Anita Hacker.

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