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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... Governor Francis Wyatt and his fellow councillors decided to remove and void all previous arrangements concerning Brase and place him entirely in the service of Wyatt himself.10 With Brase, taken from a Spanish ship, and John Phillip, a ...
... governor of Virginia, Samuel Argall, had invested in the Treasurer's expedition, as had his friend Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, in England. With the ascendancy of Sir Edwin Sandys, Virginia could no longer be a base from which to raid ...
... Governor Argall was personally involved in outfitting the expedition that sailed to the West Indies and returned with cargoes of blacks for both Virginia and Bermuda. His successor, George Yeardley, owned more of the 1619 group than ...
... governor and a tormented court fought over how the Peculiar Institution could be made as hard less peculiar despotisms—and retain treasured peculiarities too. as Old South slavery was peculiar despotism for four related reasons. First ...
... avoid “waiting men who receive presents of old coats, etc. from their masters.”7 But avoiding privileged “Sambos” meant not approaching the best potential recruits. Rolla and Ned Bennett, for example, were South Carolina governor Thomas.
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 | |