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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... common sense assessments of slavery, the coming of the Civil War, and Reconstruction, gain much of their verve and depth from their being made within the context of a national ethos. some This aspect of Stampp's work stands in marked ...
... common in recent scholarship, works that in a number of areas have offered alternatives to Stampp's approach. For instance, some political demographers have disputed the centrality of slavery to the political drama of the coming of the ...
... common humanity and national tradition and of the sometimes profoundly tragic brotherhood of the human condition. It is a happy coincidence when a great scholar is also a consummate teacher. Kenneth Stampp is surely both. Since his ...
... common dismay when Sambo was unmasked. Potter co-owned one accused rebel. The fellow had been loyal for “10 years. ... When I left the City, I always directed him to sleep in the yard, which I thought safe under his charge.” Potter ...
... common law on conspiracy: for capital offenses, two witnesses must be creditable.50 Although they were judge and jury and had legal power to convict by majority vote, all convictions except two (two more big exceptions) followed the ...
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 | |