Embattled Freedom

White Abolitionists, Black Fighters of Waverly, Pa.

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1The ‘Negro Question’

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Overview of racial attitudes of Northern whites during the 1800s. Covers property rights, dissent, abolition, religion, and constitutional conflicts.
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2Settling on Waverly

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Discusses the flight of fugitive slaves and the key role of white allies in establishing Waverly’s black settlement. Traces its peak and demise, and the mixed attitudes of white neighbors.
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3War & ‘Black Soldiery’

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Looks at one of Waverly’s main black Civil War regiments and at the home-front conflicts over Lincoln, Southern secession, the draft, and black men in uniform.
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4Charging into History

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Chronicles Waverly’s other principal black regiment and its heroism. Looks at both the praise the men won and the unremitting scorn they felt from Northern ‘Copperheads.’
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5One Family’s Odyssey

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About the lives of fugitive George Keys and his free-born sons, spanning slavery, the Underground Railroad, combat, postwar help and challenges, and a burst of political activism.
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Embattled Freedom: White Abolitionists, Black Fighters of Waverly, PA, by Jim Remsen

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