Race and Recruitment

Civil War History Readers, Vol. 2

John David Smith

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781612777429
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

The second volume of the best from Civil War History

For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this second volume in its multivolume series reintroducing the most influential of the more than 500 articles published in the journal. From military command, strategy, and tactics, to political leadership, race, abolitionism, the draft, and women's issues, from the war's causes to its aftermath and Reconstruction, Civil War History has published pioneering and provocative analyses of the determining aspects of the Middle Period.

In this second volume of the series, John David Smith has selected groundbreaking essays by David Blight, Eugene Genovese, Mark Neely Jr., Brooks Simpson, and other scholars that examine slavery, abolitionism, emancipation, Lincoln and race, and African Americans as soldiers and veterans. His introduction assesses the contribution of each article to our understanding of the Civil War era.

Those with an interest in the issues, struggles, and controversies that divided a nation will welcome this essential collection.

Index

abolition, 56, 72. See also emancipation; constitutional arguments for, 35–36, 99; in District of Columbia, 74–75, 99–101; Douglass on, 242–43, 247; Hale’s coalition for, 72–74; Liberty party founded for, 36–37, 54–55; Massachusetts support for, 68, 73; in national politics, 41, 51; Northern attitudes toward, 47, 155–56; not local issue, 34–35, 44–45

abolition movement, 52, 73, 81, 87; commemorations of, 331–32; Democratic hostility toward, 64, 66; divisiveness in, 47, 49; organizations’ debate over politics, 47–50

abolitionists, 47, 91, 253; District Emancipation Act and, 98–99, 108, 116; Liberty party and, 57, 61n40; race and, 82, 88–89; supporting Whigs, 48–49; Tappanite and Garrisonian camps of, 23–24, 35, 44

abolitionists, third camp of: central New York base of, 29–31; characteristics of, 25–26, 32–33; coalescence of, 26, 29; disintegration of, 41–44; focus on localism, 33–34, 37–38; ideology of, 29–30, 33–34; influence of, 39–41; Liberty party and, 36–37; in national politics, 34, 37–38, 39, 44–45; relations among, 26–27, 41–44; Smith’s leadership of, 24–25, 27–29

Adams, Charles Francis, 75

Adams, John Quincy, 63, 65, 98–99

Africa, 3, 3n5, 13

African Americans, 86, 90; free born vs. freed slaves, 122–23; jeremiads of, 245–48; in New Orleans vs. elsewhere, 200–201; poverty of, 275–76, 288–89; repression of, 338–39; resistance to vindicating South, 334–35; status of, 91, 96; stereotypes of, 263–64, 294–95, 308–9 (see also Sambo stereotype); white officials’ judgments about, 285, 287–89

Allen, William, 160

Altschuler, Glenn, 165

American Abolition Society, 40

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 23–24, 57

American Anti-Slavery Society, 54; Garrison and Garrisonians in, 23, 57n27; other organizations and, 24, 47–48; schisms in, 23, 31; Smith’s group and, 26, 31

Americans Interpret Their Civil War (Pressly), 331–32

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• 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