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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... took aboard an African who “could speak a little Portuguise.” After trading for various items, “He demanded, why we had not brought againe their men, which the last yeere we tooke away, and could tell us that there were five taken away ...
... took up careers as sailors and joined the floating population engaged in Atlantic trade and warfare. Other blacks came to London with Spanish diplomats, churchmen, and merchants, especially after the accession of Queen Mary in 1553 and ...
... took more extensive testimony of another illegal voyage by an English “frygott” which, because of its poor condition and short rations, put into Virginia. Having “lighted upon a Spanish frigott,” the English relieved it of “some Raw ...
... took them recognized by contractual agreements.11 Where did the “twenty and odd” come from? W.F. Craven gives a detailed and fascinating account in The Dissolution of the Virginia Company. It turns out that our nameless Dutch ship, far ...
... , however, is misleading, for slavery no more originated in Virginia than did the Church of England or the English language; like those it was imported, took root, and began to show distinctive characteristics of local adaptation.
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 | |