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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... lives he painted. He paid relatively little attention to the slaves, caricaturing them as mostly contented and childlike exotics in need of the master's care and control. Since the 1930s a number of historians—Herbert Aptheker, Richard ...
... lives of the freedmen; and that, in fact, the tragedy of Reconstruction lay 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 ...
... live oaks leading to stately ruins or to nothing at all. For southerners live in the shadow of a real tragedy; they know, better than most other Americans, that little ironies fill the history of mankind and that large disasters from ...
... lives bravely, and a true lover of Virginia; he is worthy of much honour.18 Every part of this is interesting, but our special concern is with the “forty Negroe servants,” whom Captain Matthews brought up “to trades in his house,” many ...
... live up to promises “not to suppress any part” of the evidence (emphasis theirs) that at the one spot at which they suppressed a quote, they indicated the censorship with stars.38 We will come back to that revealing censorship. For now ...
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 | |