SEMINAR STUDIES IN HISTORYGeneral Editors: Clive Emsley & Gordon MartelThe effort to abolish slavery produced the Atlantic world's great reform movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.This book focuses on the American abolitionists who struggled against slavery and advocated equal rights for African Americans in the United States. Blacks, whites, men and women, southern slaves and northern agitators became participants in the conflict between North and South that led to the Civil War in 1861 and general emancipation in 1865. Some of these activists advocated non-violence, while...
SEMINAR STUDIES IN HISTORYGeneral Editors: Clive Emsley & Gordon MartelThe effort to abolish slavery produced the Atlantic world's great reform moveme...
"An excellent study of the antislavery struggle in the streets and black alleys of Washington, D.C. The book is exceptionally well constructed. The argument is clear and easy to follow."-American Historical Review While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of the nation's capital. Historian Stanley Harrold looks beyond resolutions, platforms, and debates to describe how desperate African Americans - both free and slave - and sympathetic whites engaged...
"An excellent study of the antislavery struggle in the streets and black alleys of Washington, D.C. The book is exceptionally well constructed. The ar...
" This] product of meticulous attention to historical detail plus a grasp of American history that enables the author to discern patterns from a mass of information . . . should permanently destroy the notion of the South as a 19th-century monolith."--Journal of American History
"An important and insightful book on a neglected subject in American political and social history. It adds not only to our understanding of the other South, but also contributes to our awareness of the other America which the 19th-century South represented."--Political Science...
" This] product of meticulous attention to historical detail plus a grasp of American history that enables the author to discern patterns from a ma...
Wayne Lee examines how a scoiety shapes, directs, restrains, understands, and reacts to violence, with particular attention to riot and war in 18th-century North Carolina.
Wayne Lee examines how a scoiety shapes, directs, restrains, understands, and reacts to violence, with particular attention to riot and war in 18th-ce...
"Highly illuminating and engaging in its weaving of personal narratives through the history of natural resource policy and the emergence of networks of environmental activists. One of the most detailed extended descriptions of grassroots environmental political mobilization I have seen. . . . Essential reading for environmental activists and scholars alike."--Kenneth Gould, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
"A useful, timely, and much needed contribution to environmental history, environmental sociology, and social movements studies, with informative and solidly researched...
"Highly illuminating and engaging in its weaving of personal narratives through the history of natural resource policy and the emergence of network...
In May 1862, hundreds of African-Americans freed themselves in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and in the process destroyed the South's fundamental structure of power - the plantation household. Yet at the moment of freedom, southerners did not discard what they knew. Instead, blacks and whites, men and women constructed competing visions of freedom based on their particular understanding of household authority. General Freedoms explores this first generation of freedom and presents an intimate history of the political consciousness of the franchised and disenfranchised during the Civil War and...
In May 1862, hundreds of African-Americans freed themselves in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and in the process destroyed the South's fundamental struct...
Civil War on Race Street, so named because Race Street was the road that divided blacks and whites in Cambridge, Maryland, is a detailed examination of one of the most vibrant locally based struggles for racial equality during the 1960s. Beginning with an overview of Cambridge, particularly its history of racial and class relations, Peter Levy traces the emergence of the modern civil rights movement in this city on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Catalyzed by the arrival of freedom in 1962, the movement in Cambridge expanded in 1963 and 1964 under the leadership of Gloria Richardson, one of the...
Civil War on Race Street, so named because Race Street was the road that divided blacks and whites in Cambridge, Maryland, is a detailed examination o...
Using unusual and revealing primary materials from the careers of two remarkable Jewish women, Raymond Mohl offers an interpretation of the role of Jewish civil rights activists in promoting racial change in post-World War II Miami. He sees grassroots action as the engine that drove racial change.
Using unusual and revealing primary materials from the careers of two remarkable Jewish women, Raymond Mohl offers an interpretation of the role of Je...
"An important new dimension to the study of civil rights and southern society. The essays] chronicle the mostly untold story of southern white women--wives, mothers, club members--who possessed the moral courage to challenge Jim Crow traditions."--Jack Davis, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"Rich and insightful assessments of southern white women of privilege who chose to throw off the mantle of protection provided by race in order to address critical issues in southern society and politics."--Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University
While playing the southern lady for the white...
"An important new dimension to the study of civil rights and southern society. The essays] chronicle the mostly untold story of southern white wom...
Gregory Mixon traces the roots of the Atlanta Riot of 1906, exploring the intricate political, social, and urban conditions that led to one of the defining events of race relations in southern and African-American history. On September 22, 1906, several thousand white Atlantans rioted, ostensibly because they believed that black men had committed "repeated assaults on the white women of Fulton County," according to newspapers at the time. Four days after the massacre began, 32 people had died and 70 were wounded.Mixon acknowledges the traditional interpretation of factors that precipitated...
Gregory Mixon traces the roots of the Atlanta Riot of 1906, exploring the intricate political, social, and urban conditions that led to one of the def...
