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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that he became the first African American commissioned as a combat officer in the United States military. After the war, Swails remained in South Carolina, where he held important positions in the Freedmen's Bureau, helped draft a progressive state constitution, served in the state senate, and secured legislation benefiting newly liberated Black citizens. Swails remained active in South Carolina politics after Reconstruction until violent Redeemers drove him from the state. After Swails died in 1900, state and local leaders erased him from the historical narrative. Gordon C. Rhea's biography, one of only a handful for any of the nearly 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War or figured prominently in Reconstruction, restores Swails's remarkable legacy. Swails's life story is a saga of an indomitable human being who confronted deep-seated racial prejudice in various institutions but nevertheless reached significant milestones in the fight for racial equality, especially within the military. His is an inspiring story that is especially timely today.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - CONTENTS: Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble 'Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,' Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby 'Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,' Lauren Derby 'Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,' Chelsea Berry 'Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da Bahia, >'Examining Antebellum Medicine through Haptic Studies,' Deirdre Cooper Owens 'Unbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade,' Elise A. Mitchell 'Medicalizing Manumission: Slavery, Disability, and Medical Testimony in Late Colonial Colombia,'>'A Case Study in Charleston: Impressions of the Early National Slave Hospital,' Rana A. Hogarth 'From Skin to Blood: Interpreting Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever,' Timothy James Lockley 'Black Bodies, Medical Science, and the Age of Emancipation,' Leslie A. Schwalm 'Epilogue: Black Atlantic Healing in the Wake,' Sharla M. Fett. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation. Its forces were badly outnumbered, the Union army was threatening on all sides, and the twelve-month enlistment period for original volunteers would soon expire. In response to these circumstances, the Confederate Congress passed the first national conscription law in United States history. This initiative touched off a struggle for healthy white male bodiesboth for the army and on the home front, where they oversaw enslaved laborers and helped produce food and supplies for the front linesthat lasted till the end of the war. John M. Sacher's history of Confederate conscription serves as the first comprehensive examination of the topic in nearly one hundred years, providing fresh insights into and drawing new conclusions about the southern draft program. Often summarily dismissed as a detested policy that violated states' rights and forced nonslaveholders to fight for planters, the conscription law elicited strong responses from southerners wanting to devise the best way to guarantee what they perceived as shared sacrifice. Most who bristled at the compulsory draft did so believing it did not align with their vision of the Confederacy. As Sacher reveals, white southerners' desire to protect their families, support their communities, and ensure the continuation of slavery shaped their reaction to conscription. For three years, Confederates tried to achieve victory on the battlefield while simultaneously promoting their vision of individual liberty for whites and states' rights. While they failed in that quest, Sacher demonstrates that southerners' response to the 1862 conscription law did not determine their commitment to the Confederate cause. Instead, the implementation of the draft spurred a debate about sacrificeboth physical and ideologicalas the Confederacy's insatiable demand for soldiers only grew in the face of a grueling war.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell 'Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,' Richard Bell 'Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre-Civil War Maryland,' Jessica Millward 'Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore,' Martha S. Jones ''Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union' The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent,' Charles W. Mitchell 'Baltimore's Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath,' Frank Towers 'Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland,' Frank J. Williams 'The Fighting Sons of 'My Maryland' The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861-1865,' Timothy J. Orr ''What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick' Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam,' Brian Matthew Jordan 'Confederate Invasions of Maryland,' Thomas G. Clemens 'Achieving Emancipation in Maryland,' Jonathan W. White 'Maryland's Women at War,' Robert W. Schoeberlein 'The Failed Promise of Reconstruction,' Sharita Jacobs Thompson ''F--k the Confederacy' The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865,' Robert J. Cook. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill marks a significant development in literary recovery efforts related to Assia Wevill (19271969), who remains a critically important figure in the life and work of the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Editors Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter K. Steinberg located over 150 texts authored by Assia Wevill and curated them into a collected scholarly edition of her letters, journals, poems, and other creative writings. These documents chronicle her personal and professional lives, her experiences as a single working mother in 1960s London, her domestic life with Hughes, and her celebrated translations of poetry by Yehuda Amichai. The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill offers an invaluable documentary resource for understanding a woman whose life continues to captivate readers and scholars.…