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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... trials too. Bennett emerged from his uncomfortable experience with his slaves' shams with his patriarchal assumptions intact. The embarrassed governor was the first patriarch whose household charade was exposed as phony. Three of the ...
... so falsifying slave confessions, when publishing trial records, as to leave no consistent and creditable verbal evidence. The governor knew better. Wade attacked what he called “deliberate” discrepancies between slave confessions.
... trials followed the form of defendant put to trial and witnesses called to accuse. The manuscript transcript, however, shows that the June-July trials were divided into two phases. In mid-July, after Monday Gell turned state's witness, ...
... trial of each defendant, judges first pieced together this previously-given evidence. Then the accused and his ... trials is that after the rearrangement was completed, almost all of the evidence was published, almost word-for-word ...
... them to give accused blacks any rights.41 Nothing except the conscience of a democracy. Before public procedures began, Gov. Thomas Bennett privately demanded that trials be democratic. But the governor remained incensed that other.
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 | |