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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Camp Nelson - American Civil War]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Intangible Heritage]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Camp Nelson, located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States, was the United States' third-largest recruitment centre for African American troops and a refuge for Black women and children searching for their freedom during the Civil War, which lasted 4 years—12th April 1861 to 9th April 1865. Through their Impact-focused work with Camp Nelson staff and members of the local community, including descendants of Black refugees and troops, the researchers will co-create innovative, community-engaged museum exhibits that share the hopes Black refugees placed in Camp Nelson and the challenges they met there, reflecting on the processes involved in commemoration and the creation of historical narratives. - 

     Dr  Kristen Treen’s Leverhulme-funded project will focus on the experiences of Black refugees who fled slavery during the Civil War, and sought refuge at federal camps in Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C., among other states. Over three years it will explore the relevance of the term ‘refugee’ to the experiences of formerly enslaved people across the war-torn states, and the futures they sought to build for themselves. Asking how refugees’ mobility, refuge-taking, and acts of settlement shaped alternative commemorative approaches to the war, researchers on the project will uncover how these have been remembered, forgotten, or erased from public memory.  

Concentrating on specific refugee camps, including Camp Nelson (Kentucky) and ‘Contraband Camp’ (Washington, D.C.), it will enhance academic and public understanding of the country’s system of enslavement and Black networks of resistance and aid through extensive archival research, which will be shared through academic and public-facing publications, and innovative uses of exhibitions and digital mapping.         https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/double-funding-success-will-tell-the-forgotten-story-of-americas-black-refugee-camps/
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    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[reconstructions]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2024/25]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[In Copyright (InC)]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Reconstruction]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[1498]]></dcterms:identifier>
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