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1 online resource (vi, 392 pages) : maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-374) and index. |
| Summary |
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 maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights revolution of the twentieth century. While the history of race in the southern states has been shaped by a basic struggle between black and white, the authors. |
| Contents |
COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; MAPS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 RED, WHITE AND BLACK? NATIVE AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS MEET IN THE CHESAPEAKE; Chapter 2 SYSTEMATISING SLAVERY: THE MAKING OF THE PLANTATION SYSTEM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; Chapter 3 SLAVERY, RACE AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Chapter 4 A WHITE MAN'S REPUBLIC IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH; Chapter 5 THE PARADOXICAL INSTITUTION: ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY; Chapter 6 A FRAGILE FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF SLAVERY; Chapter 7 'THE WHITE SUPREME': RACE RELATIONS IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Southern States.
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Slavery. |
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Southern States. |
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Civil rights movements -- Southern States.
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Civil rights movements. |
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Southern States -- History.
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History. |
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Webb, Clive, 1970-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, David. Race in the American south. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007 0748613765 9780748613762 (OCoLC)65765735 |
| ISBN |
9780748628261 (electronic book) |
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0748628266 (electronic book) |
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1280953101 |
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9781280953101 |
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9780748613762 |
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