LESLIE ROWLAND
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"The Black Military Experience in the Civil War"
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Presentation to the
Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia
at the Fort Myer Officers' Club in Arlington, VA
on May 14, 2019
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About the Topic:
Earlier documents (letters, affidavits, and memorials)--drawn from the records of the National Archives--revealed the variety and complexity of the African-American experience during the era of emancipation and were published as part of her book, Freedom's Soldiers; The Black Military Experience in the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 1998). When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Her book tells the story of those men in their own words and in the words of other eyewitnesses.
Dr. Rowland’s other publications include:
The images used during her presentation are available by clicking HERE or at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eGfnLh7Q2GfyKaeXV57vIG_zF0ZdrsiZ
Dr. Leslie S. Rowland will speak about exciting new documents about the African American military experience uncovered as part of her research as the Director of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project.
Earlier documents (letters, affidavits, and memorials)--drawn from the records of the National Archives--revealed the variety and complexity of the African-American experience during the era of emancipation and were published as part of her book, Freedom's Soldiers; The Black Military Experience in the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 1998). When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Her book tells the story of those men in their own words and in the words of other eyewitnesses.
The Freedom Project is publishing a projected nine-volume series of books entitled “Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867.” It is funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Six of the volumes have been completed to date, including, The Black Military Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1982), a volume that complements Dr. Rowland's later work. Other more recently published Project works include Land and Labor, 1865 (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) and Land and Labor, 1866-1867 (University of North Carolina Press, 2013). A volume on law and justice in the post-emancipation South is nearing completion, and work has begun toward a volume on family and kinship.
About the Speaker:
Leslie S. Rowland is an associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland. She received her PhD from the University of Rochester.
Dr. Rowland teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in nineteenth-century U.S. history, which include topics on:
- Slavery, Sectionalism, and the U.S. Civil War;
- The Rise and Fall of the Old South;
- Emancipation and Reconstruction; and
- The New South
Dr. Rowland regularly makes public presentations related to the work of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and has conducted numerous national institutes and local workshops for secondary-school teachers. She has served as president of the Association for Documentary Editing and on book-prize committees for the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Society of Civil War Historians, the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Southern Association for Women Historians.
Dr. Rowland’s other publications include:
- Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 1992);
- Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (The New Press, 1992); and
- Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era (The New Press, 1997)
Among the honors Dr. Rowland has received are the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association and the Lincoln Prize for excellence in Civil War studies.
Sources:
http://history.umd.edu/users/lrowland
http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/fssppubs.htm
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