“Away I Goin’ to Find my Mamma”: Self-Emanicipation, Migration, and Kinship in Refugee Camps in the Civil War Era

Abstract

… Mary Armstrong was one of many “goin' to find [her] mamma.” Their efforts forged a different kind of revolution centered not on a quid pro quo that bartered enlistment for a route to US citizenship, but on the reconstitution of kinship. Connections to both state recognition and to kin …