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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Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp Robert H. Abzug, Stephen E. Maizlish. In Memory of Arthur Pettit and Robert Starobin Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Robert H. Abzug I. The Peculiar Institution.
... Institution 1. Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1660: A Reexamination Robert McColley 2. Denmark Vesey's Peculiar Reality William W. Freehling II. Race and Slavery in Antebellum Northern Politics 3. The Republican Party and the Slave Power ...
... Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South has been justly credited as a landmark in the rewriting of Afro-American and race relations history. Yet in over forty years of contributions to scholarship, Stampp has ranged over the ...
... institution of slavery loomed large in his sense of Civil War causation. “Without the 'peculiar institution,'” he wrote in And the War Came, “there could have been no proslavery or antislavery agitators, no division on the issue ...
... Institution more than filled the void. Researched mostly in segregated archives and published two years after Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, it was not only superb history but also a book of and for its time. Stampp forthrightly ...
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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 | |