Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

A sequel to the award-winning Free at Last that includes moving letters from freed enslaved people to their families

Drawn from the work of award-winning Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, Families and Freedom tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the Civil War era. Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed enslaved persons, the documents in Families and Freedom provide deep insight into the...