• An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (Guest: Robert K.D. Colby

  • Jul 17 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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  • Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Robert K.D. Colby, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, to discuss his new book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South. They discuss how Southerners made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War. They also chat about how slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the war by using this commerce to navigate food shortages and mitigate the demands of military service and other hardships on the home front.

    Get the book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/an-unholy-traffic-9780197578261?cc=us&lang=en&

    Show Notes:
    The Guardian: Rich Tenorio – “An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war”
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/28/robert-colby-unholy-traffic-slave-trade-civil-war
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