Introduce our next speaker, jennifer weber. Jennifer is an associate professor of history at the university of kansas. Where her specialty, no surprise, is the civil war. Her first book was copperheads for those of you who may not have a copy at home or have read it. And this, of course, is about the Antiwar Movement in the north. This was published by Oxford University press in 2006, and actually has a forward by jennifers mentor, james m. Macpherson. So you can tell she comes from a quality line. Her second book is actually geared for children, and this fact has won her a special place in the hearts of many of us in the Lincoln Group who really view the importance of sharing the story of lincoln and his heir, and our nations history with our youngest americans. That story tells the battle of gettysburg and is called summers bloodiest day. Jennifer actually right now is working on a book about conscription in the civil war area and the impact of conscription on the civil war north. Sh
Lectured throughout the country. Lincolns era and the politics of the era, and im sure this morning youre going to enjoy her talk. We heard copperheads referenced a lot this morning and this is the expert. Having heard her talk on the subject several years ago, i know youre going to find this a very interesting and useful subject. So ill turn this over to jennifer. [applause] good morning. Thank you very much for coming out, and id like to thank the lincoln group, and karen needles for inviting me today. Its always a pleasure to be in d. C. So, today im going to be talking about the summer of 1864. The summer that lincoln lost the election. 1864 did not start out as a particularly bad year for abraham lincoln. It actually started out reasonably well. The union armies were doing fairly well in the field, which was a key predictor of how the public was going to feel in the north. He did have some movement, politically, from freemont, and freemont supporters but he appeared to be in prett
The mid19th Century Court case of celia, a female slave who killed her owner after repeated Sexual Assaults. Looks at the involvement of her fellow slaves and owners white neighbors in her court case. This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Today we will continue the discussion we were having, that we began a couple weeks ago, talking about the history of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of slave women. We already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduces us to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women and that is Sexual Violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also talked about wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed is the extent to which some issues, including Sexual Violence violence generally, and Sexual Violence in particular was rather muted i
American history tv. Next, professor martha jones talked about the mid19th Century Court case of celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated Sexual Assaults. The class discusses what options she may have had, and the involvement of her fellow slaves and her masters white neighbors in her court case. That is about an hour and 20 minutes. Today we will continue the discussion we were having, that we began a couple weeks ago, talking about the history of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of slave women. We already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduces us to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women and that is Sexual Violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today that of celia. We also talked about wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed is the extent to whi
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