Race in the American South : : From Slavery to Civil Rights / / David Brown, Clive Webb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Brown, David,; Webb, Clive,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturati...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• List of Maps
• Introduction
• 1. Red, White and Black? Native Americans, Europeans and Africans Meet in the Chesapeake
• 2. Systematising Slavery: The Making of the Plantation System in the Eighteenth Century
• 3. Slavery, Race and the American Revolution
• 4. A White Man’s Republic in the Antebellum South
• 5. The Paradoxical Institution: Antebellum Slavery
• 6. A Fragile Freedom: The Civil War and the Collapse of Slavery
• 7. ‘The White Supreme’: Race Relations in the Jim Crow South
• 8. A World of Their Own: Black Culture and Resistance
• 9. The Challenge of Reform: The South in the Era of the World Wars
• 10. Moderates and Militants: The Struggle for the White South
• 11. ‘We Shall Overcome’: The Civil Rights Movement
• 12. A Dream Unfulfilled: Race in the Contemporary South
• Conclusion
• Chronology
• Guide to Further Reading
• Index