Between Fort Sumter and Appomattox\, Confe derates bought and sold thousands of men\, women and children through a pe rsisting trade in enslaved people. They did so for a multitude of reasons\ , including to adapt to the conflict\, to invest in their desired slavehol ding future\, and to fend off the onset of emancipation. These transaction s had profound impacts on the enslaved\, their lives and families\, and th e ways in which they pursued freedom during the war. The surviving traffic in humanity thus shaped the experience of the Civil War and its aftermath for all inhabitants of the wartime South.
\nRobert K.D. Colby is an assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi. His rese arch has won awards from the Society of American Historians and the Societ y of Civil War Historians and has been published in the Journal of the Civ il War Era\, Journal of the Early Republic\, and Slavery &\; Abolition.
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