PRINTChandra Manning, an American historian who gained her doctorate from Harvard, is a former professor of history at Georgetown University and is now a special advisor at Radcliffe discusses how escaped black women slaves were "contraband" and fled to the safety of the Union soldiers in order to keep their families safe - and together.
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