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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... less in the fate of southern whites than in its failure to offer complete freedom and equality to blacks. Since 1966 Stampp has embarked upon some of the most interesting interpretive forays of his career. In articles and conference ...
... less blind to the ultimate consequences of the choices they were making.” As for the Civil War, it came as a result of ordinary politicians acting in typical ways, responding to crisis as statesmen always have. “The choice they actually ...
... less to do with historical verisimilitude than with the disintegration of the humanistic historical imagination which Stampp so well represents. Despite differences of section, race, class, or philosophy, his historical figures remain ...
... less certain but still likely that they were en route from Seville by way of the Azores to some destination on the Spanish Main. Like Brase and John Phillip, the blacks of 1619 were in Virginia because of the extensive but poorly ...
... less urgent than that of the rising class of sugar planters (English servants shied away from the islands after 1640 but were still willing to take indentures in Maryland and Virginia). Furthermore, after the price of tobacco collapsed ...
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 | |