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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... thoughts about the people he offered for sale, always wished prospective buyers to think he was offering reliable Ariels and not doltish Calibans. Charles Verlinden, a Belgian authority on medieval European slavery, insists on ...
... thought, each step of the way, only of the most plausible pose. “Sambo” always ran the danger of being empty inside, like freer citizens who mindlessly conform. In Rolla Bennett we come to the distilled essence of the academic debate ...
... thought, had proved themselves not consenting “boys” but vicious men. The two or three full of fidelity who had betrayed the blacks full of murder had barely betrayed soon enough. Displaying little cowardice, less indolence, and no ...
... thought the verbal evidence of conspiracy too internally consistent to deny a plot. Wade charged the court with so falsifying slave confessions, when publishing trial records, as to leave no consistent and creditable verbal evidence ...
... thought survival depended, charged Bennett, on “the number of convictions” they “could make.” Monday Gell's and Charles Drayton's chance to make convictions, continued Bennett, increased because they were once governor four “closetted ...
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 | |