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The Long Road to Juneteenth
A Virtual Discussion with Robert K.D. Colby
Wednesday, June 18 at 3 p.m. ET
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As the oldest nationally recognized holiday commemorating emancipation, Juneteenth reflects America’s long and often difficult pursuit of its founding ideals—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet how well do we as Americans understand the Civil War roots and historical origins of this day?

Join us on Wednesday, June 18 at 3:00 p.m. ET for a conversation with Robert K.D. Colby about his award-winning book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South. Colby reveals how and why the domestic slave trade endured through the Civil War—and how its eventual collapse paved the way for emancipatory celebrations like Juneteenth. JMC’s own resident historian and manager of network engagement, Elliott Drago ([link removed]) , will moderate.

We’ll ask: who were some of these slave traders, and how did the slave trade function during the war? What effects did the slave trade have on major Southern cities? How did Black Americans resist the slave trade during the war, and how did their efforts impact the overall Confederate war effort? Which primary sources help us contextualize the end of the slave trade and the fraught realities Black Americans faced after the war?

Professor Colby ([link removed]) ’s insights shed light on the turbulent realities of the slave trade, deepening our understanding of Juneteenth’s significance and enduring power as a national holiday.
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Robert K.D. Colby is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. His award-winning book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, explores the survival of the domestic slave trade during the Civil War, using wartime slave commerce to examine the endurance of Confederate nationalism, economic and social life during the war, and the contested onset of African-American freedom.

He has published in the Journal of the Civil War Era, Journal of the Early Republic, and Slavery and Abolition, as well as in an edited volume on reconciliation following Civil Wars.

Colby is the recipient of the Society of American Historians' Allan Nevins Prize, of the Society of Civil War Historians' Anne J. Bailey Prize and Anthony Kaye Memorial Essay Award, and was a finalist for the Southern Historical Association's C. Vann Woodward Award. Before joining the University of Mississippi's History Department in 2022, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University. Colby holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in History from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in History from the University of Virginia.
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