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Democracy and the American Civil War : Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century /

In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had set the stage for what he hoped would be a smooth transition from war to peace with the announcement...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hudson, Leonne M. (Editor ), Adams, Kevin, 1975- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.