Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest Bloomsbury Publishing Their story is one of

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Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest Bloomsbury Publishing Their story is one ofOrganizing Freedom is a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the definition of emancipation to include black activism, author Jennifer R. Harbour details the aggressive, tenacious defiance through which Midwestern African Americansparticularly black womenmade freedom tangible for themselves. Despite banning slavery, Illinois and Indiana share an antebellum