Chandra Manning graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1993, received an MPhil from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 1995, and a PhD from Harvard in 2002. She has taught history at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and at Georgetown University. Currently, she serves as special advisor to the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She lives in Braintree, Massachusetts, with her family.
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A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship. By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became kn... SEE MORE