Civil War Roundtable, February

Between Fort Sumter and Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands of men, women, and children through a persistence trade in enslaved people. These transactions had profound impacts on the enslaved, their lives and families, and the ways in which they pursued — or did not pursue — freedom during the war. Robert K. D. Colby, assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi, brings these stories to light at the February Roundtable (ZOOM ONLY). The stories come from his first book, “An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South,” published in 2024 by Oxford University Press.

Find Professor Colby’s book on Amazon.

This is an online Zoom program only. If you have any difficulty registering, please contact Nicole Smith at nsmith@yorkhistorycenter.org. 

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