The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered

Focusing on the forgotten, the exceptional and the marginal, this collection illuminates the relationship of slavery to the conflicts that defined America in the Civil War era. Analyzing case studies, it offers new perspectives on the nation’s most tumultuous years.

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.

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