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Title Of times and race : essays inspired by John F. Marszalek / edited by Michael B. Ballard and Mark R. Cheathem
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 164 pages) : maps
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History
Contents Slavery, plantation life, and debt in Tennessee and Mississippi : the example of Andrew Jackson Donelson / Mark R. Cheathem -- Patriots or traitors : unionists in Civil War Mississippi / Thomas D. Cockrell -- The African American experience in Louisiana's Lafourche Region during the Civil War / Stephen S. Michot -- Union soldiers react to slaves, slavery, freedmen, and colored U.S. troops during the Vicksburg campaign / Michael B. Ballard -- Town and sword : Black boxers at Columbus, New Mexico, 1916-1922 / Horace Nash -- Black soldiers and the CCC at Shiloh National Military Park / Timothy B. Smith -- Challenging the Dunning orthodoxy : the Reconstruction revisionism of Francis Butler Simkins and Robert Hilliard Woody / James Scott Humphreys -- Confronting race in American history / Edna Greene Medford
Summary 'Of Times and Race' contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era to the early twentieth century. Taken together, these essays, inspired by noted scholar John F. Marszalek, demonstrate the many nuances of African Americans' struggle to grasp freedom, respect, assimilation, and basic rights of American citizens
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Mar. 13, 2013)
Subject African Americans -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- History -- 20th century
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans
Race relations -- Historiography
Slavery
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140208
United States -- Race relations -- Historiography
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Ballard, Michael B
Cheathem, Mark Renfred
Marszalek, John F., 1939-
LC no. 2012020682
ISBN 1621030520
9781621030522
9781617036408
1617036404