Sweet Freedom's Plains: African Americans On The Overland Trails, 1841-1869

Authors

Lynn Hudson

ISBN

9780806155623

Price

$29.95

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Abstract

The Long Trail to Freedom Over 500,000 Americans went west on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails between 1841 and 1869. And although popular representations of these westering folks would have you believe otherwise, not all were of European background. Enslaved African Americans and free bla....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.19.1.29

Recommended Citation

Hudson, Lynn (2017) "Sweet Freedom's Plains: African Americans On The Overland Trails, 1841-1869," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 19 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.19.1.29
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol19/iss1/24