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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... judge such things), engaged to import eighty blacks in 1660, although it appears that the shipment never reached Virginia.17 These were men who were leaders in every aspect of the young colony's life. They succeeded where so many others ...
... judges concerned whether ambush was creditable before whites heard of the plot. To Bennett, the court's verbal evidence, while proving a conspiracy, did not demonstrate a physically viable conspiracy. A plot able to deploy sufficient ...
... judges an adequately armed ambush. Judges pointed to testimony about homemade pikes, one dagger, two pistols, seven swords, and the crude clubs, hoes, axes, and hatchets of agricultural workers. To these normal possessions of a servile ...
... judges conceived, every plot of the few against the mighty is problematical. To avoid betrayal, conspiracies must be small. A few must create a confrontation situation which forces the many to take sides and gives them nerve to be free ...
... judges then publishing the later confession they received. A comparison of the two Enslow confessions makes the most charitable possibility the more plausible. Enslow's manuscript confession contains the words “master having read this ...
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 | |