In this Issue

Table of Contents

Tom Watson Brown Book Award

Southern Cross, North Star: Why the Middle Mattered—and Matters—in Civil War History

Christopher Phillips
pp. 173-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0023
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Special Issue: The Future of Abolition Studies

Guest Editor's Introduction: The Future of Abolition Studies

Manisha Sinha
pp. 187-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0024
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Articles

Mo Tappan: Transnational Abolitionism and the Making of a Mende-American Town

Joseph Yannielli
pp. 190-214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0025
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The Indian's Cause: Abolitionists and Native American Rights

Natalie Joy
pp. 215-242
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0026
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Antislavery Utopias: Communitarian Labor Reform and the Abolitionist Movement

Sean Griffin
pp. 243-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0027
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Black Transcendentalism: William Cooper Nell, the Adelphic Union, and the Black Abolitionist Intellectual Tradition

Peter Wirzbicki
pp. 269-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0028
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Review Essay

Reconsidering Politics in the Study of American Abolitionists

Corey M. Brooks
pp. 291-317
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0029
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Book Reviews

In the Shadow of "Dred Scott": St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America by Kelly M. Kennington, and: Before "Dred Scott": Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787–1857 by Anne Twitty (review)

Martha S. Jones
pp. 318-322
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0030
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Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras by Kristen Epps (review)

Michael F. Conlin
pp. 322-324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0031
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Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion by Dawn Peterson (review)

Andrew Denson
pp. 324-326
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0032
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Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War by Philip F. Gura (review)

Ethan J. Kytle
pp. 326-329
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0033
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A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland by Sydney Nathans (review)

John C. Rodrigue
pp. 329-331
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0034
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Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War by Catherine Clinton (review)

Leigh Fought
pp. 331-334
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0035
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Lincoln and the Democrats: The Politics of Opposition in the Civil War by Mark E. Neely Jr. (review)

Erik B. Alexander
pp. 334-336
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0036
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Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac by Stephen W. Sears (review)

George C. Rable
pp. 337-339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0037
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C. White (review)

Brooks D. Simpson
pp. 339-341
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0038
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Occupied Vicksburg by Bradley R. Clampitt (review)

Lisa Tendrich Frank
pp. 341-344
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0039
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Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War by Jonathan W. White (review)

Dillon Carroll
pp. 344-346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0040
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Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality by Judith Giesberg (review)

Jim Downs
pp. 346-349
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0041
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Reconstruction in Alabama: From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South by Michael W. Fitzgerald (review)

Amanda Brickell Bellows
pp. 349-351
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0042
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A Nation without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830–1910 by Steven Hahn (review)

Matt D. Childs
pp. 351-353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0043
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Books Received

p. 354
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0044
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Contributors

p. 355
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0045
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