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Title:

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

Publisher:

The Kent State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 103 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
United States--History--History--19th century.
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century.
Democracy--United States--History.
African Americans--History--19th century.
African American soldiers--History.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--History.

Other Authors:

Adams, Kevin, 1975- editor.
Hudson, Leonne M., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Symposia on democracy series

ISBN:

1606352695
9781606352694

OCLC:

(OCoLC)935194557

LCCN:

2016007526

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)