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  • Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

    by Leslie A. Schwalm ...
    This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted wartime research aimed ... Read more

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  • A Hard Fight for We

    Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina

    by Leslie A. Schwalm ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil War. Leslie Schwalm explores the vital roles of enslaved and formerly enslaved women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, both in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery. From there, she chronicles their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Emancipation's Diaspora

    Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest

    by Leslie A. Schwalm ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    Most studies of emancipation’s consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. Emancipation’s Diaspora follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

    by chelsea berry, robin derby, sharla fett, vanessa northington gamble, mary hicks, rana hogarth, Tim Lockley, elisa a. mitchell, deirdre cooper owens, Leslie Schwalm, brandi m. waters ...
    CONTENTS:Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble“Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,” Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby“Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,” Lauren Derby“Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,” Chelsea Berry“Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Closer to Freedom

    Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

    by Stephanie M. H. Camp ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Troubled Refuge

    Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

    by Chandra Manning ...
    From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war they knew was coming, and they began running to the Union army. By the war’s end, nearly half ... Read more

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  • Sick from Freedom

    African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

    by Jim Downs ...
    Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Confederate Reckoning

    Power and Politics in the Civil War South

    by Stephanie McCurry ...
    Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti Award“McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Richly ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • Self-Taught

    African American Education in Slavery and Freedom

    by Heather Andrea Williams ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople’s intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Long Civil War

    New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict

    Edited by John David Smith, Raymond Arsenault ...
    "Expands the range of what we consider the Civil War—temporally, geographically, conceptually. It features exceptional, high-quality essays." —Patrick A. Lewis, author of For Slavery and UnionIn this wide-ranging volume , eminent historians John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault assemble a distinguished group of scholars to build on the growing body of work on the "Long Civil War" and break new ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of the Confederacy

    Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913

    by Gaines M. Foster ...
    After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals such as memorial day observances, monument unveilings, and veterans' reunions, Ghosts of the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Rivers Ran Backward

    The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states, Abraham Lincoln's home region, had far more ambiguous identities-and contested political loyalties-than we ... Read more

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