Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

摘要

"History doesn't change," Voltaire reportedly once said, "but what we want from it does." In two books—What This Cruel War Was Over (2007) and now Troubled Refuge—Chandra Manning has looked at material that has been waiting to be mined, in some cases, for 150 years. The first book told us what soldiers on both sides, black and white, thought and were fighting for. In Troubled Refuge she takes us into the minds and hearts of the people that the conflict was about— the slaves—and how they came to terms for the first time with freedom.