Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, 2019

Avery O. Craven Award for most original book in Civil War History, Organization of American Historians, 2019

Merle Curti Social History Award, Organization of American Historians, 2019

Tom Watson Brown Award, Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson Brown Foundation, 2019

Governor’s Book Award, Kentucky Historical Society and the Office of the Governor, for most significant contribution to Kentucky History over the last four years, 2019

John Nau Book Prize, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia, 2019

Short List, Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History, 2019

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Theodore A. Hallam Book Award, University of Kentucky Department of History, 2019

“Gracefully written and exhaustively researched, Taylor’s book offers the reader a vivid and convincing narrative of these slave refugee camps as “an elemental part of the story of slavery’s destruction in the United States,” one that deserves a broad readership among not only Civil War enthusiasts but anyone interested in the history of race and slavery in the United States.” —Starred review, Publisher’s Weekly

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