
Published online:
19 September 2019
Published in print:
26 November 2018
Online ISBN:
9781469643649
Print ISBN:
9781469643625
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Edward and Emma Whitehurst in Slavery
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19–24
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Published:November 2018
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Taylor, Amy Murrell, 'Edward and Emma Whitehurst in Slavery', Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps (Chapel Hill, NC , 2018; online edn, North Carolina Scholarship Online, 19 Sept. 2019), https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643625.003.0102, accessed 16 May 2025.
Abstract
This interlude takes readers back into the antebellum period to understand what propelled Edward and Emma Whitehurst into Union lines in May 1861. It describes their lives in slavery, from Emma’s work as a field hand to Edward’s labor as a “hired-out” slave, a position that enabled them to save his wages in the hope of one day purchasing their freedom. It also narrates the arrival of war in their part of Newport News, Virginia, and the way in which planters in the region began leaving the area first. This opened up room for enslaved people like the Whitehursts to flee to Union lines beginning in mid-May, 1861.
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African American History
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