Chandra Manning

Chandra Manning teaches nineteenth-century U.S. history at Georgetown University. Her first book, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War (2007), won the OAH Avery O. Craven Award and received honorable mentions in the Lincoln Prize, the Jefferson Davis Prize, and the Virginia Literary Award in Nonfiction competitions. She is working on a book about contraband camps and the movement of former slaves during the Civil War.

Lecture topics:

• Civil War Soldiers and Slavery
• Lincoln and Union Soldiers
• Contraband Camps: Slaves, Union Soldiers, and the Uncertain Beginnings of Freedom

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