The Road Was Full of Thorns

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, wh