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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... never quite vanquished strain of unionism. More recent essays in The Imperiled Union returned to the old question of the Civil War's coming. Stampp scrutinized the growth of constitutional and historical traditions concerning secession ...
... never addressed and others which modify or dispute Stampp's own work, testifies to the success of his philosophy of mentorship. The essays in this volume represent some of the latest work of a number of Stampp's students. Topics range ...
... never Yields us kind answer. ... Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! ... Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!4 Slave and servant, as Shakespeare is using them, do not ...
... never acknowledged by the statute law of England, it nevertheless happened that for over two hundred and fifty years various Englishmen, English colonials, and foreigners routinely brought blacks into England and retained them there ...
... never a question of maintaining a large and disciplined black proletariate. Neither African nor Indian slavery figured in the plans of those Englishmen who first planted colonies in North America. They recognized an acute problem of ...
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 | |