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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxi, 991 pages) Digital: data file.
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- Ethnicity in seventeenth-century English America, 1600-1700 / Carol Berkin
- Ethnicity in eighteenth-century North America, 1701-1788 / Graham Russell Hodges
- The limits of equality : racial and ethnic tensions in the new republic, 1789-1836 / Marion R. Casey
- Racial and ethnic identity in the United States, 1837-1877 / Michael Miller Topp
- Race, nation, and citizenship in late nineteenth-century America, 1878-1900 / Mae M. Ngai
- The critical period : ethnic emergence and reaction, 1901-1929 / Andrew R. Heinze
- Changing racial meanings : race and ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964 / Thomas A. Guglielmo and Earl Lewis
- Racial and ethnic relations in America, 1965-2000 / Timothy J. Meagher.
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- Gross, Ariela Julie.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2008.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (x, 368 pages) Digital: text file; PDF.
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- * A Note on Terminology * Introduction *1. The Common Sense of Race *2. Performing Whiteness *3. Race as Association *4. Citizenship of the "Little Races" *5. Black Indian Identity in the Allotment Era *6. From Nation to Race in Hawai'i *7. Racial Science, Immigration, and the "White Races" *8. Mexican Americans and the "Caucasian Cloak" * Conclusion: The Common Sense of Race Today * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index.
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Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them. When she sued for her freedom, witnesses assured the jury that she was white, and that they would have known if she had a drop of African blood. Morrison's court trial - and many others over the last 150 years - involved high stakes: freedom, property, and civil rights. And they all turned on the question of racial identity.Over the past two centuries, individuals and groups (among them Mexican Americans, Indians, Asian immigrants, and Melungeons) have fought to establish their whiteness in order to lay claim to full citizenship in local courtrooms, administrative and legislative hearings, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Like Morrison's case, these trials have often turned less on legal definitions of race as percentages of blood or ancestry than on the way people presented themselves to society and demonstrated their moral and civic character.Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Ariela Gross' book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society. This book reminds us that the imaginary connection between racial identity and fitness for citizenship remains potent today and continues to impede racial justice and equality.
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3. Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 [2018]
- Livesay, Daniel, author.
- Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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- Book — 1 online resource
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- Inheritance, family and mixed-race Jamaicans, 1700-1761
- Early Abolitionism and mixed-race migration into Britain, 1762-1778
- Lineage and litigation, 1782-1788
- Abolition, revolution, and migration, 1788-1793
- Tales of two families, 1793-1800
- Imperial pressures, 1800-1812
- New struggles and old ideas, 1813-1833
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- Higginbotham, F. Michael, author.
- New York : New York University Press, 2013.
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- Book — 1 online resource
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- Part I: Creating the Paradigm: Racial Hierarchy1. Constructing Racial Categories from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
- 2. Maintaining White Dominance during Reconstruction3. Preventing Black Excellence between Plessy and BrownPart II: Sustaining the Paradigm: White Isolation and Black Separation and Subordination4. Maintaining Racial Segregation in Schools and Neighborhoods from Brown to the 21st Century
- 5. Victimizing Blacks in the 21st Century Part III: Ending the Paradigm: Building a Post-Racial America6. Black Empowerment and Self-Help7. Integration and Equality.
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- Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950-
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©1997.
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- Book — 1 online resource (253 pages) Digital: data file.
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 SLAVERY IN EARLY NATIONAL BALTIMORE AND RURAL MARYLAND; 2 INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY IN BALTIMORE; 3 THE BLACK DRIVE FOR AUTONOMY AND MASTERS' RESPONSES; 4 MANUMISSION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SLAVERY; 5 FREE BLACK FAMILY STRATEGIES FOR GAINING FREEDOM; 6 POLITICAL-ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND FREE BLACKS; Conclusions; Appendix A: Baltimore Slaveholders, 1790-1820; Appendix B: Occupational Categories; Appendix C: Sale Prices of Term Slaves and Slaves for Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B.
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- Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950-
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©1997.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (253 pages) Digital: data file.
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 SLAVERY IN EARLY NATIONAL BALTIMORE AND RURAL MARYLAND; 2 INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY IN BALTIMORE; 3 THE BLACK DRIVE FOR AUTONOMY AND MASTERS' RESPONSES; 4 MANUMISSION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SLAVERY; 5 FREE BLACK FAMILY STRATEGIES FOR GAINING FREEDOM; 6 POLITICAL-ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND FREE BLACKS; Conclusions; Appendix A: Baltimore Slaveholders, 1790-1820; Appendix B: Occupational Categories; Appendix C: Sale Prices of Term Slaves and Slaves for Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B.
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7. The dark side of Hopkinsville : stories [1991]
- Poston, Ted, 1906-1974.
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1991.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxxi, 107 pages)
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Hopkinsville Informants
- Introduction
- 1. Mr. Jack Johnson and Me
- 2. The Werewolf of Woolworth's
- 3. Knee Baby Watkins
- 4. Cousin Blind Mary
- 5. Papa Was a Democrat
- 6. Mr. Beefer Jones
- 7. High on the Hog
- 8. The Birth of a Notion
- 9. Rat Joiner Whips the Kaiser
- 10. The Revolt of the Evil Fairies
- Notes
- Sources
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- Stockley, Grif.
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxiii, 529 pages, [16] pages) : illustrations
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- Voices of slavery
- Owning slaves
- The Civil War in Arkansas and the refashioning of black identity
- Reconstruction
- Redeemers
- The coming of Jim Crow
- Jeff Davis and his legacy
- The Elaine race massacres
- The aftermath of the Elaine race massacres and the twenties
- The Great Depression and the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union
- The beginning challenge to Jim Crow
- Brown v. Board of Education and the Central High crisis
- Wandering in the wilderness of race : 1957-1960
- The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee years
- Brothers against brothers
- The impact of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Marianna
- The seventies : no rest for those weary of race
- The eighties and nineties : so far to go
- Race relations in the twenty-first century.
- Morrison, Karen Y., author.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
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- Book — 1 online resource
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- Preface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social Identities Acknowledgments
- 1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments ofAfro-Cuban Social Value to 1820
- 2. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763-1820
- 3. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820-1867
- 4. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of CubanWhiteness
- 5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868-1886
- 6. "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886-1940
- 7. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920-1958 Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National Family, 1959-2000 Notes References Index.
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- Wong, Marie Rose, 1954-
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2004.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xx, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps
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- Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
- 1. The Nineteenth-Century American City;
- 2. The Chinese Presence in Oregon;
- 3. Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in Oregon;
- 4. Peopling the Chinese Community of Oregon;
- 5. This Place Called Chinatown; Epilogue: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Non-Claves; Appendix: Occupations of Portland's Chinese, 1860-1910; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xviii, 299 pages) : illustrations
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- Violence in the American South
- American Indians, Violence against
- Arson
- Black armed resistance
- Blood sports
- Capital punishment
- Church burnings
- Civil rights, Federal enforcement
- Civil rights-era violence
- Civil War
- Corporal punishment in schools
- Criminal justice through the civil rights era
- Dueling
- Feuds and feuding
- Films about lynching
- Films about prison
- Guns
- Homicide
- Honor
- Hunting
- Labor violence
- Literature, Violence in
- Lynching
- Memory
- Mexican Americans, Violence towards
- Militarism
- Nonviolent protest (Civil disobedience)
- Organized crime
- Outlaw-heroes
- Peonage
- Police brutality
- Prisons
- Race riots
- Rape
- Reconstruction-era violence
- Religion and violence
- Slave culture, Violence within
- Slave patrols
- Slave revolts
- Slaves, Violence toward
- Song, Black, Violence in
- Song, White, Violence in
- Southwestern violence
- Suicide
- Vigilantism
- Alamo
- American Indian blood revenge
- American Indian slave trade
- Ames, Jessie Daniel
- Andersonville Prison
- Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary)
- Antiabortion violence
- Antilynching activism
- Atlanta (Georgia) race riots (1906)
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Birmingham Church Bombing
- The birth of a nation
- Black militias
- "Bonnie and Clyde"
- Bowie knife
- Byrd, James, Murder of
- Chain gang
- Convict leasing
- Copeland, James
- Cortez, Gregorio
- Deliverance
- Donald, Michael, Lynching of
- Elaine (Arkansas) Massacre (1919)
- Evers, Medgar, Assassination of
- Filibusters
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford
- Frank, Leo
- Greensboro (North Carolina) Massacre (1979)
- Guerrilla bands
- Harlan County, Kentucky
- Hatfields and McCoys
- James Brothers
- King, MartinLutherr, Jr., Assassination of
- Knights of the Golden Circle
- Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Era to the present
- Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction-era
- Ku Klux Klan, Second (1915-1944)
- Long, Huey, Assassination of
- Lynching photography
- Night Riders
- Orangeburg (South Carolina) Massacre (1968)
- Parchman Mississippii State Penitentiary)
- Redfield, H.V.
- Regulator movement
- Rosewood (Florida) Incident (1923)
- Scottsboro Case
- Sumner-Brooks Affair
- Texas Rangers
- Till, Emmett
- Trail of Tears
- Tulsa (Oklahoma) Race Riot (1921)
- Turner, Nat
- Waco Siege (Branch Davidians)
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Whitecappers
- Wilmington (North Carolina) Race Riot (1898)
- Index of contributors
- Index.
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xviii, 299 pages) : illustrations
- Summary
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- Violence in the American South
- American Indians, Violence against
- Arson
- Black armed resistance
- Blood sports
- Capital punishment
- Church burnings
- Civil rights, Federal enforcement
- Civil rights-era violence
- Civil War
- Corporal punishment in schools
- Criminal justice through the civil rights era
- Dueling
- Feuds and feuding
- Films about lynching
- Films about prison
- Guns
- Homicide
- Honor
- Hunting
- Labor violence
- Literature, Violence in
- Lynching
- Memory
- Mexican Americans, Violence towards
- Militarism
- Nonviolent protest (Civil disobedience)
- Organized crime
- Outlaw-heroes
- Peonage
- Police brutality
- Prisons
- Race riots
- Rape
- Reconstruction-era violence
- Religion and violence
- Slave culture, Violence within
- Slave patrols
- Slave revolts
- Slaves, Violence toward
- Song, Black, Violence in
- Song, White, Violence in
- Southwestern violence
- Suicide
- Vigilantism
- Alamo
- American Indian blood revenge
- American Indian slave trade
- Ames, Jessie Daniel
- Andersonville Prison
- Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary)
- Antiabortion violence
- Antilynching activism
- Atlanta (Georgia) race riots (1906)
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Birmingham Church Bombing
- The birth of a nation
- Black militias
- "Bonnie and Clyde"
- Bowie knife
- Byrd, James, Murder of
- Chain gang
- Convict leasing
- Copeland, James
- Cortez, Gregorio
- Deliverance
- Donald, Michael, Lynching of
- Elaine (Arkansas) Massacre (1919)
- Evers, Medgar, Assassination of
- Filibusters
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford
- Frank, Leo
- Greensboro (North Carolina) Massacre (1979)
- Guerrilla bands
- Harlan County, Kentucky
- Hatfields and McCoys
- James Brothers
- King, MartinLutherr, Jr., Assassination of
- Knights of the Golden Circle
- Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Era to the present
- Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction-era
- Ku Klux Klan, Second (1915-1944)
- Long, Huey, Assassination of
- Lynching photography
- Night Riders
- Orangeburg (South Carolina) Massacre (1968)
- Parchman Mississippii State Penitentiary)
- Redfield, H.V.
- Regulator movement
- Rosewood (Florida) Incident (1923)
- Scottsboro Case
- Sumner-Brooks Affair
- Texas Rangers
- Till, Emmett
- Trail of Tears
- Tulsa (Oklahoma) Race Riot (1921)
- Turner, Nat
- Waco Siege (Branch Davidians)
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Whitecappers
- Wilmington (North Carolina) Race Riot (1898)
- Index of contributors
- Index.
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- Ellis, Mark.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (345 pages)
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- Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction
- 1. Jack Woofter-The Education of a Southern Liberal
- 2. Thomas Jesse Jones and Negro Education
- 3. Migration and War
- 4. Will Alexander and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation
- 5. Dorsey, Dyer, and Lynching
- 6. The Limits of Interracial Cooperation
- 7. Northern Money and Race Studies
- 8. Howard Odum and the Institute for Research in Social Science Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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14. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough : Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community [2005]
- Adhikari, Mohamed.
- Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2005.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (272 pages).
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- Acknowledgments, ; Introduction; Abbreviations;
- 1. Continuity and Context: An Overview of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa;
- 2. History from the Margins: Changing Perceptions of Its Past within the Coloured Community;
- 3. The Predicament of Marginality: Case Studies from the Earlier Period of White Rule;
- 4. The Hegemony of Race: Coloured Identity within the Radical Movement during the Mid-twentieth Century;
- 5. The Emperor's New Clothes: Coloured Rejectionism during the Latter Phases of the Apartheid Era.
- 6. New Responses to Old Dilemmas: Coloured Identity in a Transforming South AfricaNotes; Select Bibliography; Index.
15. African Americans in U.S. foreign policy : from the era of Frederick Douglass to the age of Obama [2015]
- Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
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- Book — 1 online resource Digital: data file.
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- Preface : reflections of a black ambassador / Walter C. Carrington
- Blacks in the U.S. diplomatic and consular services, 1869-1924 / Allison Blakely
- A new Negro foreign policy : the critical vision of Alain Locke and Ralph Bunche / Jeffrey C. Stewart
- Carl Rowan and the dilemma of civil rights, propaganda, and the Cold War / Michael L. Krenn
- Reconstruction's revival : the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and the roots of black populist diplomacy / Brandi Hughes
- White shame/black agency : race as a weapon in post-World War I diplomacy / Vera Ingrid Grant
- Goodwill ambassadors : African American athletes and U.S. cultural diplomacy, 1947-1969 / Damion Thomas
- The paradox of jazz diplomacy : race and culture in the Cold War / Lisa Davenport
- African American representatives in the United Nations : from Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice / Lorenzo Morris
- Obama, African Americans, and Africans : the double vision / Ibrahim Sundiata
- Epilogue : the impact of African Americans on U.S. foreign policy / Charles R. Stith.
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- Lorimer, Douglas A., author.
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) Digital: data file.
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- General Editor's introduction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Imperial contradictions: assimilation and separate development Part I: Race
- 3. Race and science: from institutional foundations to applied anthropology, 1871-1914
- 4. Race, popular science, and empire Part II: The language of race relations
- 5. From colour prejudice to race relations
- 6. The colour question - 'The greatest difficulty in the British Empire', 1900-14 Part III: Resistance
- 7. Resistance: initiatives and obstacles
- 8. Conclusion Index
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- Struthers, David M., author.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations
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A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational migration brought people from Asia, Europe, and Mexico. Together, these newcomers forged a multiethnic alliance of anarchists, labor unions, and leftists dedicated to challenging capitalism, racism, and often the state. David M. Struthers draws on the anarchist concept of affinity to explore the radicalism of Los Angeles's interracial working class from 1900 to 1930. Uneven economic development created precarious employment and living conditions for laborers. The resulting worker mobility led to coalitions that, inevitably, remained short lived. As Struthers shows, affinity helps us understand how individual cooperative actions shaped and reshaped these alliances. It also reveals social practices of resistance that are often too unstructured or episodic for historians to capture. What emerges is an untold history of Los Angeles and a revolutionary movement that, through myriad successes and failures, produced powerful examples of racial cooperation.
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009]
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- Book — 1 online resource. Digital: data file.
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- What's race got to do with it? Postwar German history in context / Rita Chin and Heide Fehrenbach
- Black occupation children and the devolution of the Nazi racial state / Heide Fehrenbach
- From victims to "homeless foreigners" : Jewish survivors in postwar Germany / Atina Grossmann
- Guest worker migration and the unexpected return of race / Rita Chin
- German democracy and the question of difference, 1945-1995 / Rita Chin and Heide Fehrenbach
- The trouble with "race" : migrancy, cultural difference, and the remaking of Europe / Geoff Eley.
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1986]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (217 pages) Digital: data file.
- Summary
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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.
- 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.
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- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1986]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (217 pages) Digital: data file.
- Summary
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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.
- 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.
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