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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465979403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

9781631012280

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (114 p.)

Classificazione

973.7415 DEM

Disciplina

973.7/415

Soggetti

African Americans - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 African Americans

United States Race relations History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.