Leslie A Schwalm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1690770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie A Schwalm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwalm |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWALM L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
US slavery, civil war, and the emancipation of enslaved mothers
US slavery, civil war, and the emancipation of enslaved mothers
In the United States, slavery’s destruction was a war-long process, shaped not only by Union military victories, legislation, and presidential proclamations, but also by contradictory, inconsistent and sometimes lethal policies enacted by the Union military and federal government toward refugees from slavery. The haphazard nature of those policies and their often deadly consequences were never more evident than in the experience of enslaved women…
Agonizing Groans of Mothers” and “Slave‐Scarred Veterans”
This essay focuses on the impact of slavery on the lives of the formerly enslaved and their descendants in the black communities of the upper Midwest and explores contested memories of slavery and emancipation in three sites of cultural production: Emancipation Day celebrations, obituaries, and postbellum slave narratives. The essay finds that the formerly‐enslaved and their descendants grappled with a national legacy of slavery in memory and com…
"Overrun with Free Negroes"
In March 1863 a Union officer wrote to his hometown newspaper inquiring, "Are there any contrabands wanted in Iowa City, or its vicinity for help this spring? If so, please let me hear from you. I could send a large number to Iowa, if they were wanted, as there are many brought up the river at this time . . . ." Writing from St. Louis, he noted that many of the former slaves gathered there "prefer going to Iowa [more] than any other place." But b…
Freedpeople in the Tobacco South
A Hard Fight for We
This title is winner of the Willie Lee Rose Publication Prize, the Southern Association of Women Historians, 1998. The courage and vigor with which African-American women fought for their freedom during and after the Civil War are firmly at the center of this groundbreaking study. Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, Leslie Schwalm offers a thoroughly researched account of their vital roles in antebellum p…
A Hard Fight for We
Journal Article A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina. By Leslie A. Schwalm. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02259-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-252-06630-8.) Get access Thavolia Glymph Thavolia Glymph Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
A Confederate Lady Comes of Age
Journal Article A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Hey ward, 1863–1888. Ed. by Mary D. Robertson. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press and A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862. By Cornelia Peake McDonald. Ed. by Minrose C. Gwin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press Get access Leslie Schwalm Leslie Schwalm University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Search for other works …
A Hard Fight for We
Journal Article A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina. By Leslie A. Schwalm. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02259-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-252-06630-8.) Get access Thavolia Glymph Thavolia Glymph Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
A Confederate Lady Comes of Age
Journal Article A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Hey ward, 1863–1888. Ed. by Mary D. Robertson. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press and A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862. By Cornelia Peake McDonald. Ed. by Minrose C. Gwin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press Get access Leslie Schwalm Leslie Schwalm University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Search for other works …
A Hard Fight for We
Journal Article A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina. By Leslie A. Schwalm. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02259-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-252-06630-8.) Get access Thavolia Glymph Thavolia Glymph Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
A Hard Fight for We
This title is winner of the Willie Lee Rose Publication Prize, the Southern Association of Women Historians, 1998. The courage and vigor with which African-American women fought for their freedom during and after the Civil War are firmly at the center of this groundbreaking study. Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, Leslie Schwalm offers a thoroughly researched account of their vital roles in antebellum p…
Freedpeople in the Tobacco South
"Overrun with Free Negroes"
In March 1863 a Union officer wrote to his hometown newspaper inquiring, "Are there any contrabands wanted in Iowa City, or its vicinity for help this spring? If so, please let me hear from you. I could send a large number to Iowa, if they were wanted, as there are many brought up the river at this time . . . ." Writing from St. Louis, he noted that many of the former slaves gathered there "prefer going to Iowa [more] than any other place." But b…
Agonizing Groans of Mothers” and “Slave‐Scarred Veterans”
This essay focuses on the impact of slavery on the lives of the formerly enslaved and their descendants in the black communities of the upper Midwest and explores contested memories of slavery and emancipation in three sites of cultural production: Emancipation Day celebrations, obituaries, and postbellum slave narratives. The essay finds that the formerly‐enslaved and their descendants grappled with a national legacy of slavery in memory and com…
US slavery, civil war, and the emancipation of enslaved mothers
In the United States, slavery’s destruction was a war-long process, shaped not only by Union military victories, legislation, and presidential proclamations, but also by contradictory, inconsistent and sometimes lethal policies enacted by the Union military and federal government toward refugees from slavery. The haphazard nature of those policies and their often deadly consequences were never more evident than in the experience of enslaved women…
US slavery, civil war, and the emancipation of enslaved mothers
Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · American History and Culture (4 works) · Emancipation (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Spanish Civil War (4 works)