New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. StamppRobert H. Abzug, Stephen E. Maizlish For more than three decades race relations have been at the forefront of historical research in America. These new essays on race and slavery—some by highly regarded, award-winning veterans in the field and others by talented newcomers—point in fresh directions. They address specific areas of contention even as together they survey important questions across four centuries of social, cultural, and political history. For the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, Reid Mitchell profiles the consciousness of the average Confederate soldier, while Leon F. Litwack explores the tasks facing freed slaves. Arthur Zilversmit switches the perspective to Washington with a reevaluation of Grant's commitments to the freedmen. Essays on the twentieth century focus on the South. James Oakes traces the rising fortunes of the supposedly vanquished planter class as it entered this century. Moving to more recent times, John G. Sproat looks at the role of South Carolina's white moderates during the struggle over segregation in the late 1950s and early 1960s and their failure at Orangeburg in 1968. Finally, Joel Williamson assesses what the loss of slavery has meant to southern culture in the 120 years since the end of the Civil War. A wide-ranging yet cohesive exploration, New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America takes on added significance as a volume that honors Kenneth M. Stampp, the mentor of all the authors and long considered one of the great modern pioneers in the history of slavery and the Civil War. |
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... of the Stuart monarchy. Charles II established a government committed to the African slave trade and Negro slavery as integral parts of a scheme of imperial expansion. Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1660: A Reexamination Robert McColley.
... Charles Verlinden, a Belgian authority on medieval European slavery, insists on continuity between the slavery of the Mediterranean world and that of the Atlantic commercial area that began to develop with the Portuguese expansion of ...
... Charles II did after his restoration was to start a company under royal patronage for buying slaves in West Africa and selling them in the American colonies, from which the Dutch were barred by new navigation acts and the conquest of ...
... Charles II had reached Virginia. In the end it represented wishful thinking, for the era of more or less free trade with the Dutch was nearing its end. But here we are interested in the act only because it gives evidence about the ...
... Charles E. Wynes, “Negroes,” in Encyclopedia of Southern History, ed. D.C. Roller and R.W. Twyman (Baton Rouge, 1979), 886. 2. Evarts B. Greene and Virginia Harrington, American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790 (New York ...
Contents
The Republican Party and the Slave Power William E Gienapp | |
Race and Politics in the Northern Democracy 18541860 | |
The Creation of Confederate Loyalties Reid Mitchell | |
The Ordeal of Black Freedom | |
Grant and the Freedmen Arthur Zilversmit | |
The Planter Class in | |