Democracy and the American Civil War : race and African Americans in the nineteenth century / edited by Kevin Adams and Leonne M. Hudson.
In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had set the stage for what he hoped would be a smooth transition from war to peace with the announcement...
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Table of Contents:
- Morality, violence, and perceptions of abolitionist success and failure from before the Civil War to the present / Stanley Harrold
- "As firmly linked to 'Africanus' as was that of the celebrated Scipio": Abraham Lincoln, emancipation, and the U.S. Colored Troops / John David Smith
- Reconstructing other southerners: the aftermath of the Civil War in the Cherokee Nation / Fay A. Yarbrough
- Army of democracy?: moving towards a new history of posse comitatus / Kevin Adams
- Democracy and race in the late Reconstruction south: the White Leagues of Louisiana / Mitchell Snay.