1. African Americans’ Civil War
Testing the Bounds of Freedom: Slaves
Challenging the rules
Loyalty and escape
Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863
“Contraband”
Confiscation Acts
Antietam/Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Havens and Hellholes: Contraband Camps
Freedman’s Village
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: Sea Islands
Christian Soldiers
White officers/black men
54th Massachusetts
Emancipation in the Confederacy

2. Map of Freedman’s Village, Arlington, Va.

3. Illustration of Freedman’s Village

4. “Contrabands” in Virginia

5. “Song of the Contrabands”

6. “First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation” (1864)

7. Adalbert Volck, “Writing the Emancipation Proclamation”

8. Thomas Waterman Wood A Bit of War History: The Contraband

9. A Bit of War History: The Recruit

10. A Bit of War History: The Veteran

11. Fort Wagner, 1863