Race and Recruitment: Civil War History Readers, Volume 2

Contents

Contents introduction ix rebelliousness and Docility in the Negro Slave: A Critique of the Elkins Thesis Eugene D. Genovese 1 The Gerrit Smith Circle: Abolitionism in the burned-over District lawrence J. Friedman 23 The liberty Party in massachusetts, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third Party Politics in the bay State Reinhard o. Johnson 46 only His Stepchildren: lincoln and the Negro Don E. Fehrenbacher 78 Emancipation in the Federal City Michael J. Kurtz 98 Circumventing the Dred Scott Decision: Edward bates, Salmon P. Chase, and the Citizenship of African Americans James P. McClure, leigh Johnsen, Kathleen Norman, and Michael vanderlan, eds. 118 Defending Emancipation: Abraham lincoln and the Conkling letter, 1863 Allen C. Guelzo 155 lincoln and Equal rights for Negroes: The irrelevancy of the “Wadsworth letter” Harold M. Hyman 185 lincoln and Equal rights: A reply ludwell H. Johnson 195 E v Abraham lincoln and black Colonization: benjamin butler’s Spurious Testimony Mark E. Neely Jr. 204 Fort Pillow revisited: New Evidence about an old Controversy John Cimprich and Robert C. Mainfort Jr. 212 Frederick Douglass and the American Apocalypse David W. Blight 227 “The Doom of Slavery”: ulysses S. Grant, War Aims, and Emancipation, 1861–1863 Brooks D. Simpson 250 “i Do Not Suppose That uncle Sam looks at the Skin”: African Americans and the Civil War Pension System, 1865–1934 Donald R. Shaffer 271 “Shoulder to Shoulder as Comrades Tried”: black and White union veterans and Civil War memory Andre Fleche 290 Slavery, Emancipation, and veterans of the union Cause: Commemorating Freedom in the Era of reconciliation, 1885–1915 M. Keith Harris 317 list of Contributors 343 index 345 vi contents ...