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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... early Virginia to our own era. Oakes points out an irony of emancipation for southern politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century—abolition of slavery actually strengthened the political hand of the planters vis-à-vis ...
... early Virginia are reasonably clear about the status of the blacks who lived there before 1660. The year 1660 marks a definite period in the history of black Virginians for several reasons. The older and still influential literature on ...
... earliest blacks created a demand for more, when procuring more became possible. The population figures for the period ... early seventeenth century until the end of the Civil War, and even later in memoirs, histories, and fiction. The ...
... early seventeenth century the word servant meant both servant and slave in our modern senses. One reason for this may have been that almost everyone who could then write English had also studied Latin, where servus normally means slave ...
... early years of the century. The slave trader, for instance, whatever his private thoughts about the people he offered for sale, always wished prospective buyers to think he was offering reliable Ariels and not doltish Calibans. Charles ...
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 | |