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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... concerned with heroes and villains; rather he writes of individuals of ordinary dimension, caught in historical circumstances demanding extraordinary talent, wisdom, and courage. Thus slavery grew from small beginnings to intractable ...
... concerned themselves with overseas trade and colonization were some who were quite willing to buy, sell, and employ Africans just as those pioneers of modern colonization, the Portuguese and Spaniards, did. It is now proper to account ...
... concerned with the excellent character and estate of Captain Samuel Matthews. But it speaks more directly to the way in ... concern is with the “forty Negroe servants,” whom Captain Matthews brought up “to trades in his house,” many of ...
... concerns sexual relations. W.F. Craven inclined to the view that the black population was slow to reproduce because a very few blacks were scattered throughout a much larger white population, and, at least among those registered for ...
... concerned that his boy should be raised a Christian; the purchase of his freedom appears on the face of it to have been an essential condition of his becoming a member of the church. Yet it is difficult to see how Graweere could have ...
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 | |