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Chandra Manning speaks to the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia on June 11, 2013, at the Fort McNair Officers' Club in Washington D.C. on the topic: "Civil War Contraband Camps, Emancipation, and the Reinvention of the American People.”
A copy of the slides to her presentation for reference while listening to this recording is available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=17ABC0KuD3qPfGTHPEt0168epThnMYjeE
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Dr. Manning’s presentation takes a close look at interactions between the Union Army and refugees from slavery in Civil War contraband camps to better understand how the Civil War not only ended slavery, but also reinvented the relationship between the federal government and the individual person.
Biography:
Chandra M. Manning teaches at Georgetown University and co-directs the Georgetown Workshop in 19th Century U.S. History with her colleague Adam Rothman. Her first book, “What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War” won the Avery Craven Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians, earned Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize, the Jefferson Davis Prize, and the Virginia Literary Awards for Non-fiction, and was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize. Her current work focuses on how the Civil War, slave refugees, and the United States government changed each other during and after the Civil War, and goes in three directions. One book begins in Civil War contraband camps to examine how the relationship between former slaves and the United States government changed during and after the Civil War. Another project analyzes contraband camps in the context of the global history of war refugees. And a third project (still at a much earlier stage) looks at the United States Centennial in 1876.
Chandra Manning researches and writes about 19th century United States history, the century that saw the United States transition from an agrarian republic to an urban, industrial nation, define gender norms in particularly enduring ways, invent what we now call the "middle class," depend upon and then abolish human slavery, tear itself apart in civil war, evolve a particular version of a central state with global influences as well as implications, and, last but certainly not least, embrace baseball as its "national game." (She is also busily brainwashing her two young sons into Red Sox fans). Dr. Manning is particularly interested in ordinary Americans' relationship to the United States government, as well as their ideas about slavery, civil rights, citizenship, republicanism, and the legacy of the American Revolution. Her published work to date has focused largely on Union and Confederate soldiers' changing attitudes toward slavery and race during the Civil War.
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- U.S. Civil War History