Race and Recruitment, Volume 2 : Civil War History Readers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865--Relations with African Americans.

Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans.

Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865--Views on slavery.

Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery.

African American veterans--History--19th century.

African American veterans -- History -- 19th century.

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Slaves--Emancipation--United States.

Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ashland : Kent State University Press, 2013.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Contents

Introduction

Rebelliousness and Docility in the Negro Slave: A Critique of the Elkins Thesis

The Gerrit Smith Circle: Abolitionism in the Burned-Over District

The Liberty Party in Massachusetts, 1840-1848: Antislavery Third Party Politics in the Bay State

Only His Stepchildren: Lincoln and the Negro

Emancipation in the Federal City

Circumventing the Dred Scott Decision: Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, and the Citizenship of African Americans

Defending Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling Letter, 1863

Lincoln and Equal Rights for Negroes: The Irrelevancy of the "Wadsworth Letter"

Lincoln and Equal Rights: A Reply

Abraham Lincoln and Black Colonization: Benjamin Butler's Spurious Testimony

Fort Pillow Revisited: New Evidence about an Old Controversy

Frederick Douglass and the American Apocalypse

"The Doom of Slavery": Ulysses S. Grant, War Aims, and Emancipation, 1861-1863

"I Do Not Suppose That Uncle Sam Looks at the Skin": African Americans and the Civil War Pension System, 1865-1934

"Shoulder to Shoulder as Comrades Tried": Black and White Union Veterans and Civil War Memory

Slavery, Emancipation, and Veterans of the Union Cause: Commemorating Freedom in the Era of Reconciliation, 1885-1915

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Smith, John David Race and Recruitment, Volume 2

ISBN:

9781612777436

OCLC:

922995175