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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... importance of the antislavery movement, omissions which in retrospect he readily admits. However, the institution of slavery loomed large in his sense of Civil War causation. “Without the 'peculiar institution,'” he wrote in And the War ...
... important strain of idealism aimed at bettering the lives of the freedmen; and that, in fact, the tragedy of Reconstruction lay less in the fate of southern whites than in its failure to offer complete freedom and equality to blacks ...
... important individual contributions and the elaboration of a compelling historical vision. He assumes the existence of a unity known as American history and tells his story within that continuum. Thus The Peculiar Institution treats ...
... important confusion concerning the period before 1660 is the one caused by a change in the meaning and use of the critical words servant and slave. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary reminds us of a fact so obvious it is indeed odd that we ...
... , saying, Commune with David secretly, and say Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee,” and here our modern translators quite properly retain the word servants, for these were people of importance at.
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 | |