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Of times and race [electronic resource] : essays inspired by John F. Marszalek / edited by Michael B. Ballard and Mark R. Cheathem.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--20th century.
- Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Of Times and Race contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era through 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. Essays include Mark R. Cheathem's look at Andrew Jackson Donelson's struggle to keep his plantations operating within the ever-growing debate over slavery in mid-nineteenth century America. Thomas D. Cockrell examines Southern Unionism during
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-62103-052-0
- OCLC:
- 823722853
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