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The Road Was Full of Thorns
- Civil War Runaways and the Destruction of American Slavery
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Road Was Full of Thorns af Tom Zoellner, 9798893850086
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Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9798893850086
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
8893850087
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Udg. Dato:
13 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2 x 2,0
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Oplagsdato:
13 nov 2025
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The Road Was Full of Thorns

- Civil War Runaways and the Destruction of American Slavery
Engelsk
Hardback 2025
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A radical retelling of the drama of emancipation, from New York Times bestselling author and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

“Zoellner is a beautiful writer, a superb reporter, and a deep thinker.” —The New York Times Book Review on
The National Road

In the opening days of the Civil War, three enslaved men approached the gates of Fort Monroe, a U.S. military installation in Virginia. In a snap decision, the fort’s commander “confiscated” them as contraband of war.

From then on, wherever the U.S. Army traveled, torrents of runaways rushed to secure their own freedom, a mass movement of 800,000 people—a fifth of the enslaved population of the South—that set the institution of slavery on a path to destruction.

In an engrossing work of narrative history, critically acclaimed historian Tom Zoellner introduces an unforgettable cast of characters whose stories will transform our popular understanding of how slavery ended. The Road Was Full of Thorns shows what emancipation looked and felt like for the people who made the desperate flight across dangerous territory: the taste of mud in the mouth, the terror of the slave patrols, and the fateful crossing into Union lines. Zoellner also reveals how the least powerful Americans changed the politics of war—forcing President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and opening the door to universal Black citizenship.

For readers of The 1619 Project—and anyone interested in the Civil War—The Road Was Full of Thorns is destined to reshape how we think about the story of American freedom.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9798893850086
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
8893850087
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
13 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2 x 2,0
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
13 nov 2025
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