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Schwalm: US slavery, civil war, and the emancipation of enslaved mothers…
Schwalm: US slavery, civil war, and the emancipation of enslaved mothers
Enslaved mothers are consistently portrayed of outliers to the story of slavery's wartime collapse and destruction
Military history of the war must no longer be written as though the battlefields consisted of only the encounters btwn enemy soldiers
Accounting of human cost of the Civil War must finally turn to the project of estimating civilian deaths
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Haphazard nature of emancipation & aid policies concerning women and children led to humanitarian crisis
policies that directed the military's treatment of fugitive slaves were framed around the utility of fugitive slave men to the war effort
fugitive slave men considered "contraband" - enemy property that could be legally confiscated when it was used in the enemy's war effort
Women and children eventually considered valuable only because their protection (through acceptance into refugee camps) was integral to enlisting their husbands and sons into the war effort
Human beings viewed as commodities ties to the history of slavery and the dehumanization of AA populations
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