Race and recruitment
By: edited by John David Smith
Series: Civil War history readers -- volume 2
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781606351802
Subjects: Antislavery movements; History; Slaves; Emancipation; African Americans; African American Participation; Veterans; African American veterans; Views on slavery; Relations with African Americans; Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rebelliousness and docility in the Negro slave : a critique of the Elkins thesis / Eugene D. Genovese; title: The Gerrit Smith circle : abolitionism in the burned-over district / Lawrence J. Friedman; title: The Liberty Party in Massachusetts, 1840-1848 : antislavery third party politics in the Bay State / Reinhard O. Johnson; title: Only his stepchildren : Lincoln and the Negro / Don E. Fehrenbacher; title: Emancipation in the federal city / Michael J. Kurtz; title: Circumventing the Dred Scott decision : Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, and the citizenship of African Americans / James P. McClure, Leigh Johnsen, Kathleen Norman, and Michael Vanderlan, eds; title: Defending emancipation : Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter, 1863 / Allen C. Guelzo; title: Lincoln and equal rights for Negroes : the irrelevancy of the "Wadsworth letter" / Harold M. Hyman; title: Lincoln and equal rights : a reply / Ludwell H. Johnson; title: Abraham Lincoln and black colonization : Benjamin Butler's spurious testimony / Mark E. Neely Jr; title: Fort Pillow revisited : new evidence about an old controversy / John V. Cimprich and Robert C. Mainfort Jr; title: Frederick Douglass and the American apocalypse / David W. Blight; title: "The doom of slavery" : Ulysses S. Grant, war aims, and emancipation, 1861-1863 / Brooks D. Simpson; title: "I do not suppose that Uncle Sam looks at the skin" : African Americans and the Civil War pension system, 1865-1934 / Donald R. Shaffer; title: "Shoulder to shoulder as comrades tried" : black and white Union veterans and Civil War memory / Andre Fleche; title: Slavery, emancipation, and veterans of the Union cause : commemorating freedom in the era of reconciliation, 1885-1915 / M. Keith Harris.