![]() In Slavery: Interpreting American History, editors Aaron Astor and Thomas C. The book also highlights Mott’s role as an organizer of the Seneca Falls women’s rights conference of 1848. This commentary is emblematic of how she charted her own course, “I cannot accept its (the Bible’s) inspiration as a whole…let us recognize revelation and truth wherever we find it…love, and justice, and mercy, and right” are “innate, self-defined.” Mott would channel this inner light to reform her own religion as well. Instead, Quakers relied on “the divine light of God (that) was in every human being.” Faulkner uses this divine or inner light as a theme to show how Mott’s own sense of right and wrong, not the Bible’s or clerical authority’s, governed her actions. They eschewed formal clergy, local meetings were governed by consensus, women had an equal role in ministry and matters of faith, and the Bible was not the authoritative source for conduct and belief. Quakers at the time of her birth in the 1790s were not unified in anti-slavery convictions, and Mott as a young woman worked within her own church to place her Meeting and the Quaker faith on the side of Black freedom. He saw Faulkner’s book as an engaging cure for years of neglect of a woman who was born a few years after the United States. You might not expect to see a review of this 2011 volume in 2022, but reviewer Mark Harnitchek says that as a boy growing up in Philadelphia he had been surprised by the lack of scholarly biographies of a woman who seemed to him to be among his city’s most ardent advocates of freeing African Americans from bondage. According to reviewer Stephen Davis: “Shaffer’s approach is novel: tracing Georgia’s wartime experience not so much with his own narrative as by following it through the words of the folks back home-in letters, newspapers, diaries, memoirs and a rich array of other sources, such as Sam Richards’ well-known diary.”Ĭarol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy is a decade old book on a central figure in the Quaker struggle over abolition. Shaffer is reviewed by Emerging Civil War as the new go-to book on the war in Georgia. Louis Black woman who sought freedom.ĭay By Day through the Civil War in Georgia by Michael K. Nick Sacco writes about the story of Mattie Jackson, and enslaved St. ![]() McClellan.įor Women’s History Month Emerging Civil War facilitated a discussion among some of its women writers on their historical influences.Īl Mackey writes about the closing of some sections of the western portion of the Gettysburg Battlefield for restoration and safety repairs beginning this month on his blog. Kevin Pawlak has an interesting article in Emerging Civil War discussing post-war assertions by Lee’s family that the Union general he considered the most talented was George B. The desk log has, of course, always been available in the archives, but it is now accessible online. Virginia challenged the Union blockading squadron athwart the Peninsula in Coastal Virginia. ![]() Minnesota to describe the Battle of Hampton Roads during which the ironclad C.S.S. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is likewise the first major conflict being extensively documented by individuals tied into a globally connected high-speed internet.”Ĭhatelain has another article on Emerging Civil War that uses the newly available desk log of the U.S.S. Civil War became the first conflict extensively photographed, where citizens on the home front could see the carnage and battlefields firsthand. Emerging Civil War had a piece by Neil Chatelain that found similarities in how the Union and the Ukrainian national government portrayed themselves. ![]() A number of writers on the Civil War explored comparative lines of study of the new conflict in Eastern Europe. The month began with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Check out the new format and see how it works for you. Another article discusses how the National Park Service can interpret the roles of enslaved Black men serving the Confederacy at Gettysburg. Other articles follow public controversies over history, like Critical Race Theory. ![]() His first article explains what he hopes to accomplish with the new format. Now he is posting five or six articles on Substack each week. Levin had blogged almost daily for years, but he had cut his writing back to just a few times each month over the last year or so. You an visit the site to see the archive of his new writing, and sign-up for his newsletter. He has now all but closed down his blogging in order to create a free Substack outlet. My long health care detention gave me plenty of time to follow the fine blogs, podcasts, and other Civil War and Reconstruction social media.įor more than a decade Kevin Levin has been one of the most popular Civil War bloggers. I spent the last third of it hospitalized at the NYU hosital in Mineola, on Long Island. ![]()
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