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Review of “Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation” by Bennett Parten | Rhapsody in Books Weblog

This outstanding new look at Sherman’s campaign from Atlanta to Savannah in late 1864 and its aftermath is told from the perspective of what happened to the self-emancipating slaves who attached themselves to Sherman’s army. The march, which became the biggest liberation event in American history, was, Parten maintains, a watershed moment in shaping the…