Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867

The outer archives are busy

by Ira Berlin, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy

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IN MID-MAY 1861, with the war only a month old, the first fugitive slaves arrived at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, an isolated federal outpost at the tip of the peninsula formed by the York and James rivers.

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