The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered: Negotiating the Peripheries (Routledge Advances in American History)

ISBN 10: 0367661942 / ISBN 13: 9780367661946

Published by Routledge, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered: Negotiating the Peripheries (Routledge Advances in American History)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367661942
• ISBN 13: 9780367661946
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and contested identities to reveal the forces that shaped America, in the era of "the Long Civil War," c.1830-1877. Offering an unparalleled scope, from the internal politics of southern households to trans-Atlantic propaganda battles, these essays address the fluidity and negotiability of racial and gendered identities, of criminal and transgressive behaviors, of contingent, shifting loyalties and of the hopes of freedom that found expression in refugee camps, court rooms and literary works.

About the Author

Laura R. Sandy is a lecturer in American history at the University of Liverpool and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery.

Marie S. Molloy is a Lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University.