Participant Info
- First Name
- Leslie
- Last Name
- Schwalm
- Country
- United States
- State
- IA Iowa
- leslie-schwalm@uiowa.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Iowa
- Website URL
- Keywords
- U.S. slavery, emancipation, Civil War, U.S. women, 19th century African American history, race and medicine
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
A Hard Fight For We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (University of Illinois Press, 1997).
Emancipation’s Diaspora: The Politics of Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
“’A Body of ‘Truly Scientific Work’: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and the Elaboration of Race,” Journal of the Civil War Era (forthcoming, December 2018).
“U.S. Slavery, Civil War, and the Emancipation of Enslaved Mothers,” Slavery & Abolition Vol 38, No. 2 (2017), 392-407.
“Surviving Wartime Emancipation: African Americans and the Cost of Civil War,” Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, Vol. 39, issue 1 (Spring 2011), 21-27
“Agonizing Groans of Mothers” and “Slave-Scarred Veterans”: The Commemoration of Slavery and Emancipation,” American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2008)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- U.S.
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Emancipation, Gender, Human Rights, Medicine, Race, Sexuality, Slavery, Women
