Format:
1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
ISBN:
9780813161822
Content:
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.Looking at the institution itself, Robert McColley reconsiders the origins of black slavery in America, while William W. Freehling presents a striking interpretation of the De
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Peculiar Institution; 1. Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1660: A Reexamination; 2. Denmark Vesey's Peculiar Reality; II. Race and Slavery in Antebellum Northern Politics; 3. The Republican Party and the Slave Power; 4. Race and Politics in the Northern Democracy, 1854-1860; III. Civil War and Reconstruction; 5. The Creation of Confederate Loyalties; 6. ""Blues Falling Down Like Hail"": The Ordeal of Black Freedom; 7. Grant and the Freedmen; IV. Past in Present: The Long Aftermath of War
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8. The Present Becomes the Past: The Planter Class in the Postbellum South9. ""Firm Flexibility"": Perspectives on Desegregation in South Carolina; 10. The Soul Is Fled; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813150833
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America : Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Sklaverei
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Geschichte
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