124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): African Americans and the Civil War: New Sources, New Perspectives

African Americans and the Civil War: New Sources, New Perspectives

AHA Session 8

Thursday, January 7, 2010: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Marina Ballroom Salon D (Marriott)

Chair:

Catherine Clinton, Queen's University at Belfast

Papers:

“They Made Me Practically Their Slave": Accounts of Black Survivors of the Fort Pillow Massacre
Donald R. Shaffer, Upper Iowa University

Reconstructing Forrest: Race, Memory, and the Cultural Landscape of the Modern South
Court P. Carney, Stephen F. Austin State University

Enemy Combatants: African American Soldiers in Confederate Prisons
Thomas J. Ward Jr., Spring Hill College

"Bitter Tears" for Uncle Tom and Bullets for Black Soldiers: Race and Violence between White Officers and Black Soldiers in the Union Army
Michael E. DeGruccio, University of Notre Dame

Comment:

John David Smith, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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