Democracy and the American Civil War : race and African Americans in the nineteenth century

Democracy and the American Civil War : race and African Americans in the nineteenth century / edited by Kevin Adams and Leonne M. Hudson.

In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had set the stage for what he hoped would be a smooth transition from war to peace with the announcement...

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Other Authors: Adams, Kevin, 1975- (Editor), Hudson, Leonne M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
1800-1899
African Americans > History > 19th century.
African Americans
Race relations
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Morality, violence, and perceptions of abolitionist success and failure from before the Civil War to the present / Stanley Harrold
  • "As firmly linked to 'Africanus' as was that of the celebrated Scipio": Abraham Lincoln, emancipation, and the U.S. Colored Troops / John David Smith
  • Reconstructing other southerners: the aftermath of the Civil War in the Cherokee Nation / Fay A. Yarbrough
  • Army of democracy?: moving towards a new history of posse comitatus / Kevin Adams
  • Democracy and race in the late Reconstruction south: the White Leagues of Louisiana / Mitchell Snay.

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