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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... Labor in the Old South (1929) had long been standards in the field. Phillips envisioned slavery as something of a glorious burden for the master, not always showing much monetary reward but encouraging the finer moral instincts of ...
... labor exploitation. In all, The Peculiar Institution reset the terms of historical inquiry into slavery and also inspired a new generation of scholars to seek a more two-sided perspective on the history of American race relations ...
... labor, not as slaves.”1 Such accounts then skip to 1660 or beyond, leaving the question vague as to when the institution of slavery started in Virginia. It will be maintained here that the familiar account just cited does not correspond ...
... labor. Before 1660 and, indeed, for several years after, white labor under indentures lasting several years made up the bulk of the labor force in Virginia and Maryland. No one can argue that blacks played some sort of crucial or ...
... labor. But it must again be recalled that those who actually owned slaves continued to call them servants, and the word slave, when used in law and trade, very largely lost the connotations of brutality, outrage, and debasement we have ...
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 | |