The Slave Trade in the Civil War South with Robert Colby
I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Robert Colby to The Rogue Historian. Robby is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for American Studies and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership and American Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his dissertation, "The Continuance of an Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South," recently received the Society of American Historians' Allan Nevins Prize for the best written dissertation on a significant subject in American history.
Robby and I go all the way back to the University of Virginia days (we explain…) so it was great catching up after far to long. We discuss:
A very cool essay on the Robert E. Lee monument in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall - he published this is a collection of essays: Reconciliation After Civil War: Global Perspectives edited by Paul Quigly and James Hawdon
What’s missing in the literature concerning the slave trade during the Civil War
Enslaved people - their forced movement within the Confederacy and the implications in terms of self-emancipation
Capitalism - past historians and capitalism’s “victory” over the slave system
New scholarship on capitalism and slavery by authors such as Walter Johnson and Ed Baptist
The slave trade and Confederates’ prospects for victory
The language of writing about slavery and reflections on P. Gabrielle Foreman’s “Writing about Slavery”
The “incompleteness of the national metamorphosis”
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