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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... Democracy, 1854-1860 Stephen E. Maizlish III. Civil War and Reconstruction 5. The Creation of Confederate Loyalties Reid Mitchell 6. “Blues Falling Down Like Hail”: The Ordeal of Black Freedom Leon F. Litwack 7. Grant and the Freedmen ...
... democratic ideals facing unvarnished historical reality. Its almost epic quality comes from depicting slavery as a southern tragedy within the broader national history, a sense one gets from the very first paragraph: “To understand the ...
... democrat. One way past schizophrenia was a third North American oddity: private despotism and public democracy allegedly cleaved at the color line. In the Old South, democratic public authority supposedly governed only whites, all ...
... Democratic and despotic suppositions sometimes inseparable. Schizophrenic confusion often returned. A measure of confusion was a fourth institutional peculiarity: public democracy moving past the color line to supply private ...
... democratic state required to take over despotic deterrence often felt compelled to remain democratically legitimate. The state sought to try “criminals” with some semblance of democratic justice,
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 | |