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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... leaders in every aspect of the young colony's life. They succeeded where so many others failed because of strong physical constitutions, enterprise, a shrewd sort of intelligence, and a certain amount of good fortune. If only one or two ...
... Leaders of the Vesey Conspiracy exemplified expectations aroused, then thwarted. Denmark Vesey himself, a mulatto ... leader of the underclass understood better than the master class that coercion must.
... leaders. In late May 1822, a month before Armageddon, a recruiter approached the wrong “family friend.” A trusted house servant proved trustworthy. He betrayed the rebels. At first authorities did not believe the informer. Ned Bennett ...
... leaders, Ned and Rolla Bennett, were his trusted “boys.” The most humiliating sham involved not Ned, even though that deceiver had thrown the government off stride by swearing adoration for the governor after the first betrayal ...
... surprise attack lost the capacity to surprise undermined that viewpoint. As Bennett pointed out, a plot is hardly “within a few hours of consumation” when a leader must send a city lad ignorant of the countryside twenty-two.
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 | |