Better Than Slavery? Contraband Camps and Abuses at the Hands of Liberators by Troy Kickler

Troy Kickler is the Founding Director of the North Carolina History Project and Editor of NorthCarolinahistory.org. He holds an M.S. in Social Studies Education from North Carolina A&T State University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee. His dissertation was “Black Children and Northern Missionaries, Southern Conservatives, Freedmen’s Bureau Agents, and Freedmen in Reconstruction Tennessee.” He has taught at the University of Tennessee, Barton College, and North Carolina State University.