Leslie Schwalm, historian

A Hard Fight For We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (University of Illinois Press, 1997). (2006 Willie Lee Rose Book Award from the Southern Association of Women’s Historians.) Chosen for inclusion in The History E-Book Project of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Link to Purchase: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p066306

Emancipation’s Diaspora: The Politics of Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). (2010 Benjamin Shambaugh Book Prize from the Iowa State Historical Society)

Link to Purchase: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807859506/emancipations-diaspora/