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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... Conspiracy of 1822 was the severest antebellum scare. Both Charlestonians' explanations of why the Peculiar Institution momentarily shattered and their efforts to make the peculiar normal again illuminate how that mysterious title ...
... conspiracy's cogency. But they agreed that evidence showed some threat. Contemporaries also agreed that the Peculiar Institution's peculiar tendencies toward softness gave Denmark Vesey his opportunity. Those agreements aside, an ...
... Conspiracy, Charleston patriarchs tended to treat their especially dense, especially talented, and especially domestic black population with special leniency. Although paternalism does not need to be permissive and fathers often rule ...
... Conspiracy exemplified expectations aroused, then thwarted. Denmark Vesey himself, a mulatto, was in-between in other ways North Americans were supposed to prevent. He was free where blacks were supposed to be enslaved. He was a ...
... conspiracy could simply walk away from a dangerous idea. A recruit was given the choice to kill or be killed. The slave Bacchus Hammett, for example, found the conspirators' arguments unconvincing. “Denmark then said,” Bacchus shuddered ...
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 | |