Amy MurrellTaylor says the emancipation of slaves in the 19th century United States is often the one man, one-moment story:
President Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.
But Taylor argues that emancipation was a process, and part of that process was the settlement of slave refugees behind the military lines of the Union army, in what were called “contraband camps”.
WUOT's Chrissy Keuper spoke with Taylor about these settlements...
