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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... called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.” Modern translators, on the other hand, make Joseph a Hebrew slave, which is abundantly clear from the context ...
... called the Indian attackers slaves. Finally, we have the complaint of Thomas Best, also in 1623, that “My Master Atkins hath sold me for a £150 sterling like a damned slave.” In the first example what is called slavery is in fact a ...
... called origins of slavery in seventeenth-century Virginia, see Joseph Boskin, Into Slavery: Racial Decisions in the Virginia Colony (Philadelphia, 1976). 2 Denmark Vesey's Peculiar Reality WILLIAM W. FREEHLING The title.
... called the Domestic Institution. Southern slavery was supposed to differ from other dictatorships in that master and slave were like father and son. Father power was expected to be deployed with benevolent firmness, so that the ...
... called out hundreds of white troops. Thousands of whites experienced a terrifying, sleepless night. Vesey, not sleeping either, desperately dispatched a fellow ignorant of the countryside to tell country recruits to march. The messenger ...
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 | |