Leslie S. Rowland

Bio: Leslie S. Rowland is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emancipation & Spanish Civil War. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 16 publications receiving 392 citations.

Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

Abstract: The three essays in this volume present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. The first essay traces the destruction of slavery by discussing the shift from a war for the Union to a war against slavery. The slaves are shown to have shaped the destiny of the nation through their determination to place their liberty on the wartime agenda. The second essay examines the evolution of freedom in occupied areas of the lower and upper South. The struggle of those freed to obtain economic independence in difficult wartime circumstances indicates conflicting conceptions of freedom among former slaves and slaveholders, Northern soldiers and civilians. The third essay demonstrates how the enlistment and military service of nearly 200,000 slaves hastened the transformation of the war into a struggle for universal liberty, and how this experience shaped the lives of these former slaves long after the war had ended.

Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

Abstract: Freedom's soldiers: the Black military experience Freedom's soldiers: a documentary history.

Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Abstract: Drawn from the work of award-winning Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, Families and Freedom tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the Civil War era. Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, the documents in Families and Freedom provide deep insight into the most intimate aspects of the transformation of slaves to free people. This book is the sequel to the 1994 Lincoln Prize winner Free at Last.

John Henryism and the health of African-Americans.

Abstract: In this presentation, I will discuss how John Henryism -a strong behavioral predisposition to cope actively with psychosocial environmental stressors- interacts with low socioeconomic status to influence the health of african-Americans

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Abstract: Stimulated by recent high-profile incidents, concerns about business ethics have increased over the last decade. In response, research has focused on developing theoretical and empirical frameworks to understand ethical decision making. So far, empirical studies have used traditional quantitative tools, such as regression or multiple discriminant analysis (MDA), in ethics research. More advanced tools are needed. In this exploratory research, a new approach to classifying, categorizing and analyzing ethical decision situations is presented. A comparative performance analysis of artificial neural networks, MDA and chance showed that artificial neural networks predict better in both training and testing phases. While some limitations of this approach were noted, in the field of business ethics, such networks are promising as an alternative to traditional analytic tools like MDA.

The Civil War as a crisis in gender : Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890

Abstract: Argues that gender concepts and constructions deeply influenced the beliefs underpinning both the Confederacy and its vestiges to which white southerners clung for decades after its defeat. The book focuses on the effects of the conflict on the South's gender hierarchy.

Breaking and Remaking the Mason-Dixon Line: Loyalty in Civil War America, 1850-1900

Abstract: Breaking and Remaking the Mason-Dixon Line: Loyalty in Civil War America, 1850-1900 Charles R. Welsko Between 1850 and 1900, Americans redefined their interpretation of national identity and loyalty. In the Mid-Atlantic borderland of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia this change is most evident. With the presence of a free state and slave states in close proximity, white and black Americans of the region experienced the tumult of the Civil War Era first hand. While the boundary between freedom and slavery served as an antebellum battleground over slavery, during the war, the whole region bore witness to divisions between the Union and Confederacy as well as to define what loyalty and nation meant. By exploring how ordinary men and women, Unionists or Confederates, free or enslaved persons, articulated their understanding of loyalty, this project tracks the development of identity and nationalism for over half a century. This project analyzes the rhetoric and discussions of national loyalty in order to unpack how Mid-Atlantic residents attached themselves to the idea of a nation in the second half of the nineteenth century. In doing so, it reveals how individuals shifted their interpretation of loyalty as a loosely held, reciprocal definition of loyalty in the antebellum period to firmer antagonistic definitions of allegiance. After the war, with the inclusion of African Americans in society, white Mid-Atlantic residents again redefined loyalty to focus on the hereditary connections between themselves and the Founding Generation, thereby excluding freedmen and women from inclusion in the nation and laying the foundations for a distorted memory of the Civil War Era.