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SUMMARY:Faces of Civil War Nurses - With Ronald S. Coddington
DESCRIPTION:Women’s stories of the Civil War told through letters\, diaries\, pension files\, and newspaper and government reports. \nWednesday\, November 11\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nABOUT THIS EVENT \nDuring the American Civil War\, women on both sides of the conflict\, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts\, contributed to the war effort in countless ways: forming charitable societies\, becoming nurses\, or even marching off to war as vivandières\, unofficial attachés to the regiments. \nIn Faces of Civil War Nurses\, Ronald S. Coddington turns his attention to the experiences of 77 women of all ages and walks of life who provided care during the war as nurses\, aid workers\, and vivandières. Their personal narratives are as unique as fingerprints: each provides a distinct entry point into the larger social history of the brutal and bloody conflict. Coddington tells these determined women’s stories through letters\, diaries\, pension files\, and newspaper and government reports. Using identified tintypes and cartes de visite of women on both sides of the war\, many of them never before published\, Coddington uncovers the personal histories of each intrepid individual. Following their postwar stories\, he also explains how the bonds they formed continued long after the cessation of hostilities. \n  \nReserve Your Tickets Here \nBuy The Book Here 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/faces-of-civil-war-nurses-with-ronald-s-coddington/
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Resistance in New York
DESCRIPTION:  \nTwo New Books Shed Light on 19th-Century Complicity and Activism \nMonday\, November 16\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nAbout this Event  \nCongress banned American participation in the transatlantic slave trade in 1808\, but fifty years later the United States was still steeped in the traffic. By this stage\, the trade’s home was no longer Charleston or New Orleans\, the well-known slaving hubs of the South\, but a booming northern metropolis: New York City. \nNew York City rose from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1835. But the many tales of Gotham’s growth rarely acknowledge the truth: that the city was not only built on the backs of slaves\, but was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. \nThe scale of the illegal slave trade through New York was stunning. In the years leading up to and during the Civil War\, hundreds of slave ships embarked from Gotham’s wharfs for the African coast. Around 200\,000 men\, women\, and children would be packed aboard these vessels\, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the deadly sugar plantations of Cuba. \nJohn Harris\, a professor at Erskine College\, will recount this stunning and little-understood history\, drawing on his new book\, The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. His talk will reveal who ran the illegal slave trade\, why they got away with it\, and how Abraham Lincoln’s administration final squashed the trade during the Civil War. \nIn The Kidnapping Club\, University of Michigan historian Jonathan Daniel Wells tells the story of the powerful network of judges\, lawyers\, and police officers who circumvented anti-slavery laws by sanctioning the kidnapping of free and fugitive African Americans. Nicknamed “The New York Kidnapping Club\,” the group had the tacit support of institutions from Wall Street to Tammany Hall whose wealth depended on the Southern slave and cotton trade. But a small cohort of abolitionists\, including Black journalist David Ruggles\, organized tirelessly for the rights of Black New Yorkers\, often risking their lives in the process. \nTaking readers into the bustling streets and ports of America’s great northern metropolis\, The Kidnapping Club is a dramatic account of the ties between slavery and capitalism\, the deeply corrupt roots of policing\, and the strength of Black activism. \nReserve Your Tickets Here \nBuy The Last Slave Ships  \nBuy The Kidnapping Club
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/117129/
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