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Monthly Archives: January 2015
The Politics of Suffering: Civil War Scholarship
Chandra Manning, What this Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (New York: Vintage Books, 2007). Civil War scholarship has changed definitively throughout the twentieth century. This trend can be attributed to the vast social changes … Continue reading
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Agency in the Making of Medicine Under Slavery
Sharla M. Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). In Working Cures, Sharla Fett considers the role of medicine on southern plantations during and after the abolition of … Continue reading
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