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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... threat to “loose talk” by a harmless handful of “aggravated and embittered men.”1 That thesis hinders understanding. Two minor documents misled Wade, apparently because he missed the pivotal document. The full record is too revealing to ...
... threat. Contemporaries also agreed that the Peculiar Institution's peculiar tendencies toward softness gave Denmark Vesey his opportunity. Those agreements aside, an anguished governor and a tormented court fought over how the Peculiar ...
... threat was creditable after Charleston whites had wheeled out troops. The court claimed that even after the second betrayal, even after white troops had been deployed, an uprising almost transpired.19 Vesey's panic after the surprise ...
... and early July all accusers were unimportant followers. These underlings, remembering Denmark Vesey's threats that the black community would kill any betrayer, nor sometimes agreed to testify only anonymously, before those accused.
... evidence was rendered. After reading this court record, no contemporary leader, least of all the Doubting Thomas in the governor's chair, could call the domestic threat “loose talk.” Richard Wade's own protagonist conceded.
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 | |