Not Waiting for Deliverance
Even before the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, enslaved women struggled for the passage of the Enlistment Act of 1865 and their own emancipation.
1 Article by: Amy Dru Stanley
Amy Dru Stanley is an associate professor history at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming From Slave Emancipation to the Commerce Power: An American History of Human Rights.