Book Breaks with Bennett Parten on Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation

 

Date & Time:  July 13, 2025, 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

The Trouble of Color

Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—was more than a military maneuver. It was a freedom movement. Perhaps as many as 20,000 freedpeople sought protection behind Union lines and offered their assistance to the Union’s war effort, making this the biggest liberation event in American history. 

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