Host John Heckman talks with historian Amy Murrell Taylor about the experiences of those who escaped slavery during the Civil War, the role the Union army played in the process, and the establishment of "contraband" camps.
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The 1864 Project is a limited series about the consequential decisions and events that shaped outcomes and affected lives during a pivotal year in the American Civil War.
On this episode, we're joined by Amy Murrell Taylor, the T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and author most recently of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps (2018). We talked about the experiences of those who escaped slavery during the Civil War, the role the Union army played in the process, and the establishment of "contraband" camps.