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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... in an era when blacks were scarce and usually available only by means of elaborate overseas transactions, these tough-minded pioneers must have had special reasons for buying them. We must rule out any idea that they.
... rule out any idea that they might have been unable to get good white servants; these were the very Virginians who had the pick of each year's importation. The first thousand or so blacks came into Virginia not because white labor was ...
... rule for white servants but not for black. A more striking proof of this is the estate inventory of William Stafford, late merchant of Cheeskiake, as listed in March 1644. Among the items were eight blacks, their values given in pounds ...
... rules and conduct among early Virginia servants. 24. Catterall, Judicial Cases, vol. 1, 77. 25. Ibid. 26. Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black (Chapel Hill, 1968), 92-98. Jordan and Catterall believe that “some of the first Negroes in ...
... rule remorselessly, grim deterrence was a parental style moving out of favor in the 1820s. The cult of romanticism was softening attitudes towards inferiors throughout the western world. Lenient childraising struck an especially ...
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 | |