Project MUSE®: The Journal of the Civil War Era - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Journal of the Civil War Era.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2011) through current issueLatest Articles: The Journal of the Civil War EraTWOProject MUSE®The Journal of the Civil War Era2159-98072154-4727Latest articles in The Journal of the Civil War Era. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Noisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Nineteenth-Century Historiography of Brazil
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989642
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During the 1980s, amid mass mobilizations for democratization and the end of military rule in Brazil (1964–85), historians of race and slavery turned a fresh eye to historic claims for justice and recognition. Most previous studies about race had not accounted for how marginalized groups had navigated their relationship with the law and the state, including during Brazil’s nearly four-hundred-year history of slavery (1500–1888). Spurred by the political struggles of the era, particularly the vocal public and legal demands for meaningful representation and participation from Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous communities during the drafting of the 1988 Brazilian constitution, historians began posing new questions about
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallNoisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Nineteenth-Century Historiography of Brazil2026-05-07text/htmlen-USNoisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Nineteenth-Century Historiography of Brazil2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®733362026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Fighting Against Land Dispossession: Indigenous Power, Legal Activism, and Race in Brazil (Maranhão, c. 1750–1830)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989643
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In the early 1830s, the Indians from São José de Guimarães took the settler Mateus Severino de Avelar to court over a land dispute.1 After struggling for a few years against an aforamento (a practice similar to land leasing) conceded to Avelar, the Indians from Guimarães secured a series of favorable court decisions, expelling Avelar from their lands.2 This small community demonstrated Indigenous continuity and persistence in a place where such actions were out of the norm. Building on their long-term interactions with Portuguese colonial courts and law, the Indians from Guimarães proved to be savvy litigants. Because this land dispute drew extensively on practices developed during the period of Portuguese rule
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallFighting Against Land Dispossession: Indigenous Power, Legal Activism, and Race in Brazil (Maranhão, c. 1750–1830)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USFighting Against Land Dispossession: Indigenous Power, Legal Activism, and Race in Brazil (Maranhão, c. 1750–1830)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1360162026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Beyond Freedom: Stolen Back Wages and Radical Popular Abolitionism in Brazil
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989644
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Freed people, for their part, assumed that their labor would be compensated—what else could freedom mean?—and that not only would they determine the price of their labor, but they would set the conditions under which they would work.Brazil formally abolished slavery on May 13, 1888. After that, the constitutional monarchy, which had been in place since 1822, also came under attack. A republic was proclaimed eighteen months after abolition, on November 15, 1889. In the midst of these upheavals, in 1888 a young woman named Hermínia, who had won her freedom two years earlier, went to court to demand wages she said her former owner owed her. She claimed that she was entitled to compensation for labor performed during
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallBeyond Freedom: Stolen Back Wages and Radical Popular Abolitionism in Brazil2026-05-07text/htmlen-USBeyond Freedom: Stolen Back Wages and Radical Popular Abolitionism in Brazil2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1073832026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Mobilization, Merit, and the Struggle for Rights in the Pardo Regiment of Rio de Janeiro (1798–1831)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989645
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On July 4, 1830, Maj. Martinho Pereira de Brito died at home in central Rio de Janeiro at the age of ninety-three. Having earned a living as a goldsmith and served the Portuguese Crown (after 1822, the Brazilian Crown), in the Regiment of Pardo Men (free and freed men of color) of Rio de Janeiro, Major Brito was likely cared for in his final moments by one of his grandchildren, Francisco de Paula Brito.1 The young Paula Brito, who lived with his grandfather at the time, didn’t go into the military; however, in the 1830s, he became a feisty editor. In September of 1833, just over three years after his grandfather’s death, he began publishing O Homem de Cor (The man of color) at one of his printing presses. The first
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallMobilization, Merit, and the Struggle for Rights in the Pardo Regiment of Rio de Janeiro (1798–1831)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USMobilization, Merit, and the Struggle for Rights in the Pardo Regiment of Rio de Janeiro (1798–1831)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1231772026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Maria R. Montalvo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989647
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Maria Montalvo’s concise volume packs a proverbial punch. Working in the increasingly rich literature on archives and slavery, the author delivers a nuanced and methodologically excellent analysis of legal archival construction in antebellum New Orleans. Montalvo uses five New Orleans court cases from her impressive database to showcase the various ways in which enslavers sought to use the court system to create a history of enslavement and hence “worked to build written barriers to biographical information that the enslaved sometimes helped fortify” (13). She focuses on the moment in which enslavers brought alternative histories of the enslaved to bear in court cases to produce an outcome in their favor. Montalvo
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallEnslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Maria R. Montalvo (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USEnslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Maria R. Montalvo (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®84532026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989648
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Most Americans understand the Underground Railroad to be a northward movement of freedom seekers from the South to the free states of the North or to Canada, often with the aid of sympathetic whites and free Blacks. Over the past decade or so, several historians have demonstrated that a significant number of people escaped in other directions—to Mexico, to the Caribbean, to the urban South, and to so-called maroon communities beyond the edge of white settlement. In A Southern Underground Railroad, Paul Pressly continues the latter tradition, uncovering the story of the freedom seekers who made their way from Georgia to Spanish Florida and to Creek and Seminole villages in Indian country. By employing the National
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallA Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USA Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®77212026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Politics in Captivity: Plantations, Prisons, and World-Building by Lena Zuckerwise (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989649
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In Politics in Captivity, political theorist Lena Zuckerwise surprisingly and convincingly draws on Hannah Arendt’s concepts of “world” and “worldlessness” to illuminate Black resistance in captive settings, specifically prisons and chattel slavery. She contends that captives understood their own political lives through the discourses of resistance and rebellion, and that “Black resistance in chattel and carceral spheres is world- building” (7), with the reverse also being true since world-building constitutes an act of Black resistance. This process of world-building constitutes “politics in captivity,” a theory that enables us to see Black captives’ resistance as decidedly political. Zukerwise aims to remedy a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallPolitics in Captivity: Plantations, Prisons, and World-Building by Lena Zuckerwise (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USPolitics in Captivity: Plantations, Prisons, and World-Building by Lena Zuckerwise (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®111592026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement by Michaël Roy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989651
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Michaël Roy’s monograph Young Abolitionists puts together a compelling narrative of Black and white children’s activism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the lives of oft-forgotten historical actors and enriching historians’ understanding of how abolitionism spread across age groups. Roy argues that children were integral to the antislavery movement, “[helping] bring about the abolition of slavery itself ” (3). He further contends that Black children figured significantly in the movement, standing at its vanguard. Roy’s argument is as much about the movement as it is about children’s agency, which is often difficult to assess given that they are often rendered invisible in the archives.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallYoung Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement by Michaël Roy (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USYoung Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement by Michaël Roy (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®90332026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle by R. J. M. Blackett (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989652
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In his biography of Samuel Ringgold Ward, R. J. M. Blackett vividly explores the personal struggles and triumphs of the famed abolitionist and orator whose prominence in the nineteenth century matched that of his contemporaries Frederick Douglass, James McCune Smith, and Henry Highland Garnet. Despite Ward’s historical importance, no other scholar has attempted a traditional biography of him, perhaps because of the dearth of documentation about his life. Blackett rises to the occasion, preventing the gaps in Ward’s life from effacing his memory.The five chapters trace the phases of Ward’s life according to the places where he lived. In the first two chapters, we learn of Ward’s early life and rise to fame within
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallSamuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle by R. J. M. Blackett (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USSamuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle by R. J. M. Blackett (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®85542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician by James M. Bradley (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989653
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Despite his serving as the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren’s impact on American politics and antebellum political culture has often received little consideration. One might assume that Van Buren’s greatest accomplishment was attaining that high post that most politicians aspire to reach; however, James M. Bradley, coeditor of the Papers of Martin Van Buren at Cumberland University, offers readers a comprehensive biography of one of the nation’s most remarkable politicians and reveals the extent to which Van Buren’s highest accomplishment was the erection of a political party culture that reshaped the nature of American politics.Bradley displays painstaking attention to detail. He takes
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallMartin Van Buren: America’s First Politician by James M. Bradley (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USMartin Van Buren: America’s First Politician by James M. Bradley (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®81162026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Adding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of Texas by Jordan T. Cash (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989654
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Between 1841 and 1844, two beleaguered American presidents negotiated a foreign policy decision of momentous consequence: the annexation of Texas. This familiar story is retold in Adding the Lone Star, by Jordan T. Cash, a political scientist at Michigan State University. While historians of the Civil War era have long noted Texas’s entry into the Union as arguably the main precipitating event of the sectional crisis of the 1850s, Cash applies a political scientist’s eye to the actions of John Tyler and Sam Houston. In just over one hundred pages, Cash argues that a comparison of the actions of the two American-style executives enables us “to better perceive the nuances and conditions which affect how American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallAdding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of Texas by Jordan T. Cash (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USAdding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of Texas by Jordan T. Cash (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®83182026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War by David S. Brown (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989655
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The year 1854 was a turning point in American history—this is the central premise of David Brown’s A Hell of a Storm. The challenges that arose from the Kansas-Nebraska Act crippled the existing party system and led northerners and southerners to question their identities, as well as the nation’s identity. Brown argues that this act was “the most lethal piece of legislation to ever clear Congress” (2) and that none of the other pivotal episodes of the 1850s, including the Dred Scott decision and John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, were “as essential, as elemental, to the Union’s splintering as the opening of free soil to slavery” (3).As a political synthesis, Brown provides a sweeping overview of not only the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallA Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War by David S. Brown (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USA Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War by David S. Brown (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®74012026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840–1865 by Ian Delahanty (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989656
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In Embracing Emancipation, Ian Delahanty masterfully offers a “transatlantic perspective” (2) on how Irish Americans viewed slavery in the United States. Challenging a common understanding that Irish Americans were opposed to the emancipation of enslaved Blacks, he demonstrates that to understand Irish Americans on the issue of slavery, it is essential to understand how the Irish in Ireland viewed slavery and examine the deep connections between the Irish in Ireland and Irish Americans. By doing so, he offers three distinct perspectives on slavery from the Irish and Irish American viewpoint during the antebellum period. The Irish critique of abolitionism associated the abolitionist movement directly with the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallEmbracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840–1865 by Ian Delahanty (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USEmbracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840–1865 by Ian Delahanty (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®92892026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989657
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Freedom Was in Sight! expertly synthesizes Reconstruction historiography and narrates Black stories from the era for a high school audience. Furthermore, the book and corresponding web page (https://uncpress.org/freedom-was-in-sight-teaching-materials/) offer a one-stop shop for high school teachers. The book’s overview and timeline sections summarize the field’s historiography succinctly and without jargon, from Lost Cause propaganda, to DuBois-era revisionism, to Eric Foner’s (still!) benchmark Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (2008), to post-Obama commemoration efforts. The web page contains teaching resources created by high school teachers Krystal Davis and Jon Elfner, with input
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallFreedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USFreedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®81152026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989658
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In a world where many stories are silenced by the archives and systemic racism, uncovering hidden histories becomes an act of resistance. Kidnapped at Sea delves into the profound impact of researching these neglected narratives, shedding light on the lives and struggles of those erased by traditional historical frameworks. By amplifying voices that have long been ignored, Andrew Sillen reveals how such stories reshape our understanding of the past and challenge dominant narratives, offering new perspectives on history, power, and justice.Divided into three sections and a total of twenty-five chapters, Kidnapped at Sea tells the story of David Henry White, Captain Raphael Semmes, and the infamous Alabama. However
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallKidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USKidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®70102026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind by Stephen Budiansky (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989659
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Stephen Budiansky has created an interesting concept for A Day in September. Rather than narrate the actual Battle of Antietam, he uses the lives of nine people who played important roles in the battle or in its aftermath. The group includes commanders, a couple of soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and some lesser-known but important figures. Some of these people played significant roles in the years after the battle and did indeed reshape the United States.In a thoughtful prologue, the author shares insights into the nature of war and its impact on society. He makes it clear that this is not an academic work, thus no footnotes, but simply a list of sources for each chapter. He also warns the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallA Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind by Stephen Budiansky (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USA Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind by Stephen Budiansky (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®102952026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Art during Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North by Vanessa Meikle Schulman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989661
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Vanessa Meikle Schulman’s Art during Wartime analyzes a series of paintings of everyday life (genre paintings) dating from 1862 to 1867 against the backdrop of the Civil War. Taking a conservative and traditional art historical approach, Schulman employs visual analysis to reveal how “the war offered painters the chance to reorient the stakes of American art in response to an existential conflict of unprecedented scale” (3). Schulman makes a strong case for the relevance of genre painting during the Civil War period, noting how these works focused on society’s personal experiences in a much more relevant way than battlefield paintings, describing how the “apparent neutrality” of genre paintings “allowed them to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallArt during Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North by Vanessa Meikle Schulman (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USArt during Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North by Vanessa Meikle Schulman (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®106782026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory by Court Carney (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989662
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Let’s start with the positive features. Court Carney’s Reckoning with the Devil offers a brief and lively account of the evolution of an image. Nathan Bedford Forrest was perhaps the most notorious public figure to come out of the Civil War, and Carney is no admirer of the general. Forrest was a slave trader before the war, and he presided over the Fort Pillow massacre of surrendering Black troops. After war’s end, he became the widely reputed Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest symbolized Confederate defiance, especially for those stressing his origins as a self-made man or identifying with his record of murderous rage. Carney traces Forrest’s reputation over decades and how his image highlighted the more
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallReckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory by Court Carney (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USReckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory by Court Carney (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®112112026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design ed. by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989663
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As markers of Confederate memory and identity have increasingly been removed, relocated, destroyed, or renamed since the 2015 Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, the process of contending with the difficult past and white supremacist narratives on the landscape has necessarily begged the question, What comes next? The collection of essays curated by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming in Empty Pedestals offers a variety of possible answers. Framing monuments as “historical forms of speech” (xii), Deming states in the preface: “Most emphatically, the stories in this book are meant to inspire and encourage citizens and community members, students and teachers, activists and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallEmpty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design ed. by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USEmpty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design ed. by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®111762026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Racist Slurs and Precarious Freedoms: Seeking Legal Redress in Brazil’s Coffee Belt
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989670
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In mid-1858, Genoveva Maria da Conceição filed a criminal complaint with the Campinas police chief, alleging that Ana Joaquina de Almeida, known in the neighborhood by the nickname “Joaquina Macaw” (Arara), had insulted her.1 According to the complaint, Ana Joaquina, in her home at the time, had called Genoveva offensive names, such as “black cow” (vaca preta) and “black mule” (mula preta) among other insults. Accompanied by the adjective black, the terms cow (vaca) and mule (mula) had significant racial connotations. These insults reinforced popular associations between Blackness, animalization, and moral and social disqualification.2Witnesses in the case confirmed that Ana Joaquina had uttered such words. For
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallRacist Slurs and Precarious Freedoms: Seeking Legal Redress in Brazil’s Coffee Belt2026-05-07text/htmlen-USRacist Slurs and Precarious Freedoms: Seeking Legal Redress in Brazil’s Coffee Belt2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1355442026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990067
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The origins of Nat Turner, Black Prophet start with the late Anthony E. Kaye. Long fascinated by the formation of enslaved communities in the United States, and the revolts that rose from them, Kaye aimed to expand upon his analysis in Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (2007) and uncover new insights about Nat Turner, his community, and the rebellion he led. As Kaye laid the foundations of this work, he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Though he felt hopeful for the future, he entrusted his friend Gregory P. Downs in 2016 with finishing the project as a contingency. Tragically, in 2017, he succumbed to cancer, and thereafter Downs assumed the immense responsibility of conveying his friend’s
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmallNat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-USNat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®113872026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07 An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart (review)
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An Emancipation of the Mind is a sweeping intellectual history of some leading figures in the American antislavery movement during the Civil War era. Matthew Stewart, an independent scholar whose academic training is in philosophy, centers his study on Frederick Douglass, Theodore Parker, and Abraham Lincoln, while also giving extensive attention to Lincoln’s law partner William Herndon and the German-born immigrant and activist Ottilie Assing. An affinity for Enlightenment-inspired European (especially German) philosophers, Stewart asserts, brought this motley cast of characters into the same intellectual orbit in the roughly three decades preceding the Civil War. Thus, An Emancipation of the Mind also dwells at
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/516/image/coversmall An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart (review)2026-05-07text/htmlen-US An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart (review)2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®86132026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07