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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

A fresh take on a pivotal moment in American history, rigorously researched and recounted in incredible detail that deepens our understanding of the end of the Civil War and the start of Reconstruction.

Considered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the enslaved people who transformed it into the biggest liberation event in American history.

In the fall of 1864, General William Tecumseh ...

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