Race and Recruitment: Civil War History Readers, Volume 2

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9 781606 351802 ISBN 978-1-60635-180-2 “This is an important and long needed compilation. John David Smith has selected the very best Civil War History articles regarding the most pivotal controversies of the Civil War era. At the heart of all of them is the burning issue of race, the monstrous problem that continues to vex and challenge Americans to this day.” t. michael Parrish, Baylor University “There are fewer journals in American history more crucial than Civil War History, and there are few historian-editors more adept than John David Smith. Combined, the outcome is tremendous. Race and Recruitment captures the best Civil War scholarship from the past thirty years in one volume. For the perennial questions of why Americans fought a Civil War, how emancipation emerged, and how America was remade by fire, this is a must-read volume.” edward J. Blum, author of Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–1898 “In this valuable collection of articles from Civil War History, the nation’s preeminent journal on the Civil War, award-winning historian John David Smith reprints groundbreaking studies of slavery, abolition and the process of emancipation during the nineteenth century. By selecting pieces spanning the nearly sixty-year history of the journal, Smith highlights enduring trends as well as new directions in scholarship . His insightful introduction frames the individual essays as well as the collection as a whole. This compilation is sure to be of interest to scholars, students, and Civil War enthusiasts of every description.” JosePh P. reidy, professor of history and associate provost, Howard University “This collection stands out as one of the best comprehensive overviews of the centrality of race and slavery to the Civil War’s coming, fighting, and memory. Scholars, students , and the general reader will benefit tremendously from this essential volume.” caroline e. Janney, Purdue University JoHN DAvID SmITH is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His most recent book is A Just and Lasting Peace: A Documentary History of Reconstruction. Smith is editor of Kent State University Press’s American Abolitionism and Antislavery series. CIVIL WAR HISTORY readers, vol. 2 the Kent state university Press Kent, ohio 44242 www.KentStateUniversityPress.com Cover art: “Colored troops, under General Wild, liberating slaves in North Carolina.” Harper’s Weekly, January 23, 1864. North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill. ...