Add to ORKGFrom Slavery to Citizenship In May 1864, Jane Ciss walked into a provost marshal’s office in St. Louis hoping that she could be officially recognized as contraband of war. Ciss and two soldiers of the USCT testified before Union Captain Charles Hills that Ciss’s owner was “most of the time...
Soldiers in blue and gray weren’t the only ones fighting in the Civil War. Thomas Curran details the...
This article provides an analysis of how slave women, during the period from the American Revolution...
Abolitionism and Emancipation In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey builds on the growing...
“Harbour provides us with a finely tuned multilayered exploration of black women’s activism in the a...
This special thematic issue of the Civil War Book Review is dedicated to recent works that uncover, ...
This thesis is an investigation of the social history of slavery and freedom in Howard County, Misso...
New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Uni...
“Hunting Freedom: The Many Paths to Emancipation in Civil War Missouri” is a museum exhibition explo...
Redefining Opportunity: Charity Folk’s Life in Slavery and Freedom The life of a woman named Charity...
How Citizenship was Defined and Defended by African American Boston In More Than Freedom: Fighting f...
Those familiar with Thavolia Glymph’s Out of the House of Bondage (2008) know how she expertly craft...
These new sources present new avenues of study for diverse subjects in the Civil War, including Blac...
Taylor broadens the focus of scholarship on Black Northerners during the war from the most prominent...
During the processes of emancipation and Reconstruction, black women’s legal, socio-political, and e...
Forging New Ground in Antebellum Charleston Sophie Mauncaut, once enslaved in French Saint Domingue,...
Soldiers in blue and gray weren’t the only ones fighting in the Civil War. Thomas Curran details the...
This article provides an analysis of how slave women, during the period from the American Revolution...
Abolitionism and Emancipation In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey builds on the growing...
“Harbour provides us with a finely tuned multilayered exploration of black women’s activism in the a...
This special thematic issue of the Civil War Book Review is dedicated to recent works that uncover, ...
This thesis is an investigation of the social history of slavery and freedom in Howard County, Misso...
New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Uni...
“Hunting Freedom: The Many Paths to Emancipation in Civil War Missouri” is a museum exhibition explo...
Redefining Opportunity: Charity Folk’s Life in Slavery and Freedom The life of a woman named Charity...
How Citizenship was Defined and Defended by African American Boston In More Than Freedom: Fighting f...
Those familiar with Thavolia Glymph’s Out of the House of Bondage (2008) know how she expertly craft...
These new sources present new avenues of study for diverse subjects in the Civil War, including Blac...
Taylor broadens the focus of scholarship on Black Northerners during the war from the most prominent...
During the processes of emancipation and Reconstruction, black women’s legal, socio-political, and e...
Forging New Ground in Antebellum Charleston Sophie Mauncaut, once enslaved in French Saint Domingue,...
Soldiers in blue and gray weren’t the only ones fighting in the Civil War. Thomas Curran details the...
This article provides an analysis of how slave women, during the period from the American Revolution...
Abolitionism and Emancipation In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey builds on the growing...