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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815723203321

Titolo

Of times and race [[electronic resource] ] : essays inspired by John F. Marszalek / / edited by Michael B. Ballard and Mark R. Cheathem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2013

ISBN

1-62103-052-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BallardMichael B

CheathemMark R. <1973->

MarszalekJohn F. <1939->

Disciplina

973/.0496073

Soggetti

African Americans - History - 19th century

African Americans - History - 20th century

Slavery - United States - History - 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 African Americans

United States Race relations Historiography

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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