Robert Colby
Robert Colby is a University of Mississippi assistant professor of history and associate director of the Center for Civil War Research. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (Oxford University Press, 2024), won the Nau Book Prize from the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, the 2025 nonfiction award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. An Unholy Traffic was a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
Robert Colby is a University of Mississippi assistant professor of history and associate director of the Center for Civil War Research. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (Oxford University Press, 2024), won the Nau Book Prize from the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, the 2025 nonfiction award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. An Unholy Traffic was a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
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