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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... force in Virginia and Maryland. No one can argue that blacks played some sort of crucial or decisive role in the development of the Chesapeake economy until the last third of the seventeenth century. The position taken here is that ...
... forces the many to take sides and gives them nerve to be free. This logic of conspiratorial politics suggests that whites or blacks who believed Denmark Vesey's bragging about recruiting thousands probably exaggerated the participants ...
... force to reach inside overly permissive masters' houses and scare conspirators seeking to poison other masters' families. But, again, how could the public state, the source of collective deterrence, repress dictatorially and remain ...
... force some hard despotism on such soft democrats. Thus the court went ahead trying three Bennett slaves and several other conspirators, limiting confrontations between accused and accuser and permitting no testing of justice in the open ...
... force. In every other way, the court sought a degree of democratic procedure. Defendants were guaranteed the right to have a lawyer and their master at the trial, to present their defense, and to crossexamine anyone except the minority ...
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 | |