Books by Amy Murrell Taylor
“The subtitle of Embattled Freedom is Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. Amy recovered the stories of people fleeing slavery for the protection of the United States Army, with an uncertain future before them. She shows us that two years before the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved people were risking everything to make themselves free. This moves us from a story where freedom is bestowed on people to a story where freedom is seized by people in slavery.” Read more...
Best Books on the History of the American South
Edward Ayers, Historian
Interviews where books by Amy Murrell Taylor were recommended
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
by Edmund S Morgan -
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
by Ira Berlin -
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Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
by Amy Murrell Taylor -
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W E B Du Bois -
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
by C. Vann Woodward
Best Books on the History of the American South, recommended by Edward Ayers
Best Books on the History of the American South, recommended by Edward Ayers
To understand the America of today, you must understand the American South of the past, says historian Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Richmond. Here, he recommends five books to get started with, and also explains what his own books were aiming to contribute to the field of Southern history.
