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Recorded Interviews
In my most recent interview, I join Dr. Lorien Foote (Texas A&M) to discuss how Black prisoners of war were obscured in Civil War military records and how pension files and other archival sources can recover their experiences of Confederate captivity, reenslavement, and survival.
Ask a Southern Historian
Ask a Southern Historian
Telling my southern history origin story to Dr. Shae Smith Cox (Texas A&M) at the 2025 Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting in St. Pete's Beach, Florida
Recorded Talks
Scottsdale Civil War Roundtable
Scottsdale Civil War Roundtable
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
In each of the above talks, I delve into various aspects of Black U.S. soldiers' experiences in captivity, including how Confederate surgeons and doctors treated Black POWs on and off the battlefield.
C-SPAN3, American History TV
C-SPAN3, American History TV
While serving as the 2020-2021 postdoctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, I discussed my research on Black prisoners of war in the Confederacy. In this talk I discuss the misconception that all captured African American troops were executed and described how many were instead enslaved, including those born free in the North.
The Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech hosted this online talk and provided the video.
VCCWS Civil War Weekend 2022
VCCWS Civil War Weekend 2022
Resources for War: Black U.S. Soldiers, Coerced Black Labor, and Horses
Genealogy Research Workshop
Genealogy Research Workshop
Research Civil War African Americans
Interviews
The Oberlin Review, "Off the Cuff"
The Oberlin Review, "Off the Cuff"
In this interview with Karthik Ranganadhan for The Oberlin Review, I discuss my research on Black soldiers captured by Confederate forces during the Civil War and Veterans Day lecture hosted by the Oberlin Heritage Center for Kendal at Oberlin. I describes how military service records and veterans’ pension applications helped me identify more than 2,200 Black prisoners of war and reconstruct their experiences of captivity, forced labor, reenslavement, and survival. The conversation also explores the origins of my research, the importance of captivity communities, and my efforts to recover the voices and agency of Black soldiers whose experiences have largely been overlooked in historical accounts of the Civil War.
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