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Chapter 14: The Family's Later Years

The stories of individuals--storekeepers

This is a dangerous path for a society that depends upon civility and virtue to survive

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Amy Murrell Taylor -BH) vintage and fatherEmbattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil Wars Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all.