Somewhere Toward Freedom

Considered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass ), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the enslaved people who transformed it into the biggest liberation event in American history. In the fall of 1864, General William Tecumseh She