The National Civil War Museum, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park, Harrisburg, will offer the next presentation in the 2019 Lessons in History Speaker Series on Saturday, April 6, from 1 to 2 p.m. The program will be "Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the U.S. Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps" with Dr. Amy Murrell Taylor.
Taylor will explore history beyond the Emancipation Proclamation, sharing more of the story of how slavery collapsed during the American Civil War. After the proclamation, enslaved people still had to flee the plantations of their enslavement and seek refuge behind the lines of the Union Army. This talk will describe how nearly 500,000 men, women, and children traveled long distances and took risks in order to seek protection inside military-supervised refugee camps. The program will share their stories of survival inside these spaces as they focused on gaining freedom for themselves and their families.
Taylor is an associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of "Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps," as well as "The Divided Family in Civil War America." She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Civil War Monitor Magazine, as well as co-editor, with Stephen Berry, of the UnCivil Wars series.
For more information and a complete listing of other events at the museum, readers may visit http://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org or call 717-260-1861.
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