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Title New perspectives on race and slavery in America : essays in honor of Kenneth M. Stampp / Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish, editors
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1986]
©1986

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Contents 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
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton)
SUBJECT Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton) fast (OCoLC)fst00163813
Subject Slavery -- United States.
African Americans -- History.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
African Americans.
Race relations.
Slavery.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton)
Abzug, Robert H.
Maizlish, Stephen E., 1945-
ISBN 9780813161822
0813161827