New perspectives on race and slavery in America : essays in honor of Kenneth M. Stampp

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Introduction / Robert H. Abzug

I. The peculiar institution. Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1660 : a reexamination / Robert McColley ; Denmark Vesey's peculiar reality / William W. Freehling

II. Race and slavery in Antebellum northern politics. The Republican Party and the slave power / William E. Gienapp ; Race and politics in the northern democracy, 1854-1860 / Stephen E. Maizlish

III. Civil War and Reconstruction. The creation of Confederate loyalties / Reid Mitchell ; "Blues falling down like hail" : the ordeal of Black freedom / Leon F. Litwack ; Grant and the freedman / Arthur Zilversmit

IV. Past in present : the long aftermath of war. The present becomes the past : the planter class in the Postbellum south / James Oakes ; "Firm flexibility" : perspectives on desegregation in South Carolina / John G. Sproat ; The soul is fled / Joel Williamson