Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South

Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award

When thousands of African Americans freed themselves from slavery during the American Civil War and launched the larger process of emancipation, hundreds of northern antislavery reformers traveled to the federally occupied South to assist them. The two groups brought views and practices from their backgrounds that both helped and hampered the transition out of slavery. While enslaved, many Blacks assumed a certain guarded demeanor when...