How did Union military advances and emancipation policies affect the slave trade in the Confederacy? In this episode of Scholar Talks, Robert Colby, Assistant Professor of American history at the University of Mississippi, joins BRI Senior Fellow Tony Williams to discuss his book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South.

This episode covers how the Civil War affected the domestic slave trade, the complex responses southern slaveholders had to collapsing economic conditions, and the effects of Union military advances and emancipation policies.

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00:00:00 - 00:01:43 - Introduction
00:01:44 - 00:03:25 - Pre Civil War Domestic Slave Trade
00:03:26 - 00:06:24 - Impact of Civil War
00:06:25 - 00:012:12 - Military Advances and the Confederacy
00:12:13 - 00:17:00 - The South's Response
00:17:01 - 00:20:15 - Collapse of Slavery
00:20:16 - 00:21:45 - Civil War's Affect on Domestic Slave Trade
00:21:46 - 00:22:09 - Outro

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