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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... became inevitable. Stampp's long record of scholarship represents both a series of important individual contributions and the elaboration of a compelling historical vision. He assumes the existence of a unity known as American history ...
... became possible. The population figures for the period are interesting. For the year 1625, the white population totalled 1,227 and the black population totalled 23, or 2 percent. By 1648 the white population had risen to 15,000 and the ...
... became quite useful in the second half of the seventeenth century. Once we understand that the earliest Virginians used the word servant where later they would use slave, we are in a good position to understand the early records. But ...
... became possible for Chesapeake planters to place orders for merchandise and for slaves in the tropics. They could also now purchase slaves from those captains who returned from the islands with a few blacks bought on speculation.14 The ...
... became for a time the leading customers for Dutch slave traders—in their Caribbean sugar islands. The colonies of North America, including Virginia, were involved in this trade, though in a peripheral way. Their need for labor was less ...
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 | |