In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editors' Note

pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0000
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The Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award

A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America

Bryan LaPointe
pp. 3-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0001
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Articles

A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers

Camille Suarez
pp. 29-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0002
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The "Bull-Dog" in Istanbul: James Longstreet's Revealing Tour as US Minister to Turkey, 1880–81

Elizabeth R. Varon
pp. 56-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0003
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Review Essay

Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory

Alaina E. Roberts
pp. 87-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0004
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Book Reviews

Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community by Vanessa M. Holden (review)

Kelly Kennington
pp. 105-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0005
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A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones (review)

Christian Pinnen
pp. 107-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0006
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs (review)

Sean Morey Smith
pp. 109-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0007
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In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World ed. by Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene, and; Beacons of Liberty: International Free Soil and the Fight for Racial Justice in Antebellum America by Elena K. Abbott (review)

Stephanie J. Richmond
pp. 112-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0008
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Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. (review)

Felicia Jamison
pp. 116-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0009
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The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox (review)

Whitney Nell Stewart
pp. 119-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0010
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The Union Blockade in the American Civil War: A Reassessment by Michael Brem Bonner and Peter McCord (review)

Charles J. Wexler
pp. 121-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0011
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Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough (review)

Nakia D. Parker
pp. 124-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0012
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Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller (review)

Earl J. Hess
pp. 126-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0013
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The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault (review)

Cecily N. Zander
pp. 129-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0014
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Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius (review)

Katharine Dahlstrand
pp. 131-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0015
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Insiders, Outsiders: Toward a New History of Southern Thought ed. by Sarah E. Gardner and Steven M. Stowe (review)

Jason Phillips
pp. 134-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0016
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Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe (review)

Daniel E. Cone
pp. 136-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0017
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Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson (review)

H. Paul Thompson Jr.
pp. 139-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0018
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Books Received

p. 142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0019
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Contributors

p. 143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.0020
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