Courage, family, and citizenship to counteract prevailing stereotypes, and the national archives hosted this talk and provided the video. Greetings from the national archives. I m david fairio, archivist of the united states. And it is my pleasure to present deborah willis author of the black civil war soldier. The civil war was the most prolonged conflict to be extensively be recorded in photographs. This visual record gives a sense of immediacy that we don t have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war and other earlier conflicts. We can identify individual faces and imagine ourselves in the battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are in the national archives but photos of the black soldiers are rare. In the book the black civil war soldier deborah willis shows us the faces of the number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record, she examines not only the individual stories of
history university of massachusetts at amherst, or should he sits scorches at ability history, slavery, emancipation, and native american history. first book, which i have four in front of me, her book entitled black slaves, indian masters, slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the american south. it s quite a title. published by the university of north carolina press. this book details the untold story of the enslavement barbara has also co-authored a photographic history of slavery, emancipation and freedom published in 2013, published by temple university press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. tonight, she will be speaking about her recent work and the top is entitled envisioning emancipation, black americans and the end of slavery. please welcome barbara. (applause) well, hello, good evening. thank you for saying this late into the night. thank you for saying awake. thank you, peter, for the invitation and the introduction, and allison, who has made sure
her talk is about 50 minutes. all right. good evening. i m peter carmichael, professor of history at gettysburg college, and the director of the civil war institute. it s my pleasure to introduce barbara krauthamer, barbara is associate professor of history at the university of massachusetts at amherst where she teaches courses on antebellum u.s. history, slavery, emancipation and native american history. her first book, i have in front of me. her first book entitled box slaves, indian 345masters, slavery, emancipation and citizenship in the native american south. quite a title. published by the university of north carolina press. this book details the untold story of enslavement by cocktile and chickasaw ind januarys in the 18th and 19th centuries and barbara co-authored a photographic history of slavery, emancipation and freedom published in 2013, published by temple university press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. tonight she will be speaking about her recen
masters, slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the native . quite a title. published by the university of north carolina press. this book details the untold story of enslavement by choctaw and chickasaw indians in the 18th and 19th century. arbara has also co-authored book on slavery, emancipation and freedom published by temple university press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. tonight, she will be speaking about her recent work and the talk is entitled envisioning : black americans and the end of slavery. please welcome barbara. [laughter] professor krauthamer: hello, good evening. thank you for staying this late into the night. thank you, peter, for the invitation and the introduction, who has managed to make everything happen seamlessly from massachusetts to gettysburg. book i co-authored with deborah willis. if you do not know her, she is the leading scholar of african-american photography and slavery, a dear, dear friend of mine. over the years we have h
teaches a range of courses of 19th century u.s. history, civil war, women s history, the history of childhood, and reconstruction. i have had an opportunity to meet many of judy students. they are outstanding. she brings them here every year to gettysburg. i have had a fantastic time with judy out in the battlefield. she is a well-established scholar. she has published a number of books and articles. the book that has probably gotten the most acclaim is , sisterhood,il war and women s politics in transition. and just recently, she has assumed the editorship of the journal of the civil war era. it is a fantastic journal out of penn state, also published by the university of north carolina press, and certainly worth your attention. our second panelist, just to the left, is sarah gardner. sarah is professor of history and director of southern studies at mercer university in georgia, cultural andches intellectual history of the 18th and 19th century american south. the associat