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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816685403321

Autore

Martinez J. Michael

Titolo

Coming for to Carry Me Home : Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011

ISBN

1-283-36233-3

9786613362339

1-4422-1500-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era

Disciplina

305.800973

973.7092

Soggetti

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

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views

Race -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States

United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century

Race - Political aspects - History - 19th century - United States

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century - United States

Enslaved persons - Emancipation

United States Race relations History 19th century

United States Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Prologue: "We Have the Wolf by the Ear"; Chapter One. "The Crimes of This Guilty Land Will Never Be Purged Away but with Blood"; Chapter Two. "Mr. President, You Are Murdering Your Country by Inches"; Chapter Three. "The Bondsman's Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Unrequited Toil Shall Be Sunk"; Chapter Four. "An Ungrateful, Despicable, Besotted Traitorous Man-An Incubus"; Chapter Five. "The Progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant Was Alone Evidence Enough to



Upset Darwin"

Chapter Six. "Radicalism Is Dissolving-Going to Pieces, but What Is to Take Its Place Does Not Clearly Appear"Chapter Seven. "We Have Been, as a Class, Grievously Wounded,Wounded in the House of Our Friends"; Epilogue: "We Wear the Mask That Grins and Lies"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the concept of race in the United States from the 1830's, when the abolitionists rose to prominence, until the 1880's, when the Jim Crow regime commenced. J. Michael Martinez argues that Lincoln and the Radical Republicans were the pivotal actors, albeit not the architects, that influenced this evolution.