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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... crisis. And the War Came (1950) answered those historians who believed that blundering and irresponsible agitators had caused the war. Stampp argued that crucial issues, mostly raised by the existence of slavery, Introduction Robert H ...
... crisis, abhorring war but knowing that it might be necessary; at the same time, Stampp demonstrated that the various compromises offered by “peacemakers” of the secession winter were unrealistic because they left untouched the basic ...
... crisis as statesmen always have. “The choice they actually made was the usual one,” wrote Stampp. “It was nevertheless tragic.” His injunction not to deal “too harshly” with those who could not prevent war in 1861 applied to most of ...
... nagging questions will continue to provoke new perspectives for some time to come. 1. Kenneth M. Stampp, And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-61 (Chicago, 1964; originally published 1950), 2. 2. Kenneth.
... Crisis, 1860-61 (Chicago, 1964; originally published 1950), 2. 2. Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (New York, 1956), vii. 3. Ibid., 3. 4. Stampp, And the War Came, 298. 5. Stampp, 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 | |