Posted inIssue 11 2022 Reviews
About Laura Gillespie
Laura Gillespie is a researcher of race, power, and politics in the nineteenth-century United States. She recently completed a doctoral thesis entitled 'Contraband' Camps and the Development of African American Politics, 1860-1865. This study explores enslaved people's politicization, which had its roots in slavery, in the "contraband" or refugee camps that were established behind Union Army lines during the conflict.