The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered : Negotiating the Peripheries / edited by Laura R. Sandy and Marie S. Molloy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandy, Laura R., editor.

Molloy, Marie S., editor.

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Series:

Routledge advances in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.

United States.

History.

Slavery--United States--History--19th century.

Slavery.

War--Causes.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction: Negotiating the Peripheries / Laura R. Sandy and Marie S. Molloy

Part I: Negotiating Perceptions of Slavery, Civil War and the Confederacy

1. The Republic on Trial or Slavery Under Fire?: International Perspectives on the Nature of America's Civil War / Don H. Doyle

2. Britain in the American Civil War: Gender, Humanitarianism and Confederate Recognition (1861-65) / Kristen Brill

3. Whose Hearth and Home?: White Civil War-Era Loyalties in Central Louisiana / David T. Ballantyne

Part II: A Stable Society?: Transgressive Behaviors and Lives on the Peripheries

4. "Negro Thieves" and Abolitionists: Slave Stealing in Kentucky in the Civil War Era / Laura R. Sandy

5. Class, Color and Conflict: Separation and Divorce in Southern White Marriage in the Civil War Era / Marie S. Molloy

6. Fashioning Whiteness: Teaching the Ways That Slavery Defined Race Before and After the Civil War / Catherine Armstrong

Part III: African-American Experiences of Emancipation and Freedom Reconsidered

7. "The Contraband's Death Is More Miserable Than Her Life": Violence, Visibility, and the Medicalization of Freedom in the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant

8. Emancipation in the Dock: The Problems of Freedom in the Reconstruction Courtroom / Erik Mathisen

9. "Let Us Begin Life Anew, and Learn to Live in Earnest!": Free Black Women and the Challenges of Freedom in the Civil War Era / Rebecca J. Fraser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered.

ISBN:

9780367181222

0367181223

OCLC:

1078963707