Emancipation and the Fight for Freedom Tennessee African Americans, 1860-1900

Volume 6, of Tennessee in the Civil War Series, The Best of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly (10 articles, 210 pages, introduction, illustrations, index) addresses African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction, examining themes of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and pre- and post-war education. The issue of slavery, at the epicenter of the Civil War, makes it imperative to discuss the sufferings, as well as the strivings, of African Americans in Tennessee during the war era.