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SUMMARY:A Civil Conversation w/Dr. Robert K.D. Colby via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 2\, 2024\, at 7:00 pm for a CIVIL CONVERSATION. This is a live ZOOM event ~ Dr. Robert K. D. Colby\, author of An Unholy Traffic will engage in a Civil Conversation with NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols. Register here: Civil Conversation with Dr. Robert Colby \nAbout the book: The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and\, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic\, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox\, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men\, women\, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society\, a bulwark of the Rebel economy\, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South. \nAs An Unholy Traffic shows\, slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the Civil War\, as well as to build the future for which they fought. They mitigated the crises the war spawned by buying and selling enslaved people\, using this commerce to navigate food shortages\, unsettled gender roles\, the demands of military service\, and other hardships on the home front. Some Rebels speculated wildly in human property\, investing in slaves to ward off inflation and to buy shares in the slaveholding nation they hoped to create. Others traded people to counter the advance of emancipation. Given its centrality to their nationhood\, Confederates went to great lengths to prolong the slave trade\, which\, in turn\, supported the Confederacy. For those held in slavery\, the surviving slave trade dramatically shaped their pursuit of freedom\, inserting a retrograde movement into some people’s journeys toward liberty while inspiring others to make the risky decision to escape \nOffering an original perspective on the intersections of slavery\, capitalism\, the Civil War\, and emancipation\, Robert K.D. Colby illuminates the place of the peculiar institution within the Confederate mind\, the ways in which it underpinned the CSA’s war effort\, and its impact on those attempting to seize their freedom. \nAbout the author: Dr. Robert K.D. Colby is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. His research on the domestic slave trade has won multiple awards\, including the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/a-civil-conversation-w-dr-robert-k-d-colby-via-zoom/
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