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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... continued to call them servants, and the word slave, when used in law and trade, very largely lost the connotations of brutality, outrage, and debasement we have noted in the early years of the century. The slave trader, for instance ...
... , for Sandys fully supported the peaceful foreign policy of James I. But even had the authorities in Virginia continued to connive at an anti-Spanish policy, the colony was simply too remote to serve as an efficient base for raiding the.
... continued to import white servants until the outbreak of the War for Independence. The same assembly that hoped to encourage the Dutch to bring them more blacks also passed a law removing discriminatory terms of service from the Irish ...
... continued Bennett, accusers faced the accused in later phases of the trials, after Monday Gell turned state's evidence. But at that point, in Bennett's opinion, witnesses' collaborations poisoned justice. Monday Gell and others who ...
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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 | |