Freedom's Crescent

ISBN-13: 9781108424097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

John C. Rodrigue

Opis

A sweeping history of the Lower Mississippi Valley and its central role in abolishing slavery in the American South.

Recenzje

'A sweeping examination of one of the war's most important theaters, this book highlights the integral role this region played in transforming United States history … a possible career magnum opus.' Andrew Wagenhoffer, Civil War Books and Authors (https://cwba.blogspot.com/2023/02/booknotes-freedoms-crescent.html)

Spis treści

Introduction; Prologue; Life – and labor – on the Mississippi; Part I. From War for Union to Military Emancipation, 1860–1862: 1. 'An independent power'; 2. Of stampedes and free papers; 3. 'Broken eggs cannot be mended'; 4. 'The unsatisfactory prospect before them'; Part II. From Military Emancipation to State Abolition, 1863: 5. 'The return of the seceded states to this Union as slave states'; 6. 'Repugnant to the spirit of the age'; 7. 'The greatest question ever presented to practical statesmanship'; 8. 'The name of 'slavery''; 9. 'Repudiating the emancipation proclamation and reestablishing slavery'; Part III. Abolition: State and Federal, 1864: 10. 'Slavery is incompatible with a republican form of government'; 11. Of foul combinations and the common object; 12. 'The jewel of liberty'; 13. 'The virus of slavery is as virulent as it ever was'; 14. 'No longer slaves but freedmen'; 15. 'So long as a spark of vitality remains in the institution of slavery'; 16. 'Freedom, full, broad and unconditional'; 17. 'To resolve never again to be reduced to slavery'; Part IV. The Destruction of Slavery, 1865: 18. 'The tyrants rod has been broken'; 19. 'This cup of liberty'; 20. 'Establish things as they were before the war'; 21. 'The institution of slavery having been destroyed'; 22. 'Americans in America, one and indivisible'; Epilogue: Memphis and New Orleans: May 1–3, and July 30, 1866.