Coming for to Carry Me Home (eBook)

Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow

J. Michael Martinez (Autor)

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2011
334 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1500-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the concept of race in the United States from the 1830s, when the abolitionists rose to prominence, until the 1880s, when the Jim Crow regime commenced. J. Michael Martinez argues that Lincoln and the Radical Republicans were the pivotal actors, albeit not the architects, that influenced this evolution.

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Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans in Congress were the pivotal actors, albeit not the architects, that influenced this evolution. To understand how Lincoln and his contemporaries viewed race, Martinez first explains the origins of abolitionism and the tumultuous decade of the 1830s, when that generation of political leaders came of age. He then follows the trail through Reconstruction, Redemption, and the beginnings of legal segregation in the 1880s. This book addresses the central question of how and why the concept of race changed during this period.

Autor

J. Michael Martinez is an attorney and author of numerous articles and four books, including Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire during Reconstruction.

Inhalt

List of IllustrationsPreface and Acknowledgments Prologue: "We Have the Wolf by the Ear"1. “The Crimes of This Guilty Land Will Never Be Purged Away but with Blood”2. “Mr. President, You Are Murdering Your Country by Inches”3. “The Bondsman’s Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Unrequited ToilShall Be Sunk”4. “An Ungrateful, Despicable, Besotted, Traitorous Man—An Incubus”5. “The Progress of Evolution, from President Washington to President Grant, Was Alone Evidence Enough to Upset Darwin”6. “Radicalism Is Dissolving—Going to Pieces, but What Is to Take Its Place, Does Not Clearly Appear”7. “We Have Been, as a Class, Grievously Wounded, Wounded in the House of Our Friends”Epilogue: “We Wear the Mask That Grins and Lies”NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2011
• Reihe/Serie: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-1500-3 / 1442215003
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1500-9 / 9781442215009