Democracy and the American Civil War: Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Kevin Adams and Leonne Hudson

2018 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-123
Author(s):  
Brandon Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American Civil War

scholarly journals Writing their Own Way: American Women, Palestine’s Bedouins and Issues of Safety in the Nineteenth Century

1970 ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Jim Ross-Nazzal
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
American Women ◽  
Women Travelers ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Travel Accounts

Throughout the nineteenth century, more and more Americans traveled abroad, especially after the American Civil War (1861-1865). Many, upon their return home, published their travel accounts. I have collected and analysed the published accounts of fifty American women. What follows is an investigation into how American women travelers who ventured to Palestine perceived and interacted with Palestine’s Bedouin populations by examining their published travel accounts.

Samson and the Making of American Martyrs

Black Samson ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Nyasha Junior ◽  
Jeremy Schipper
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Political Compromise ◽  
Social Advancement ◽  
John Brown

By the 1850s, some abolitionists had begun to use the term “Samson” to refer to those involved in insurrections by enslaved persons. By the dawn of the Civil War, they extended that term to describe real-life persons who fought to end slavery. In the last half of the nineteenth century, poets, clergy, scholars, and other intellectuals began to identify biblical Samson with historical individuals who challenged racial oppression in America. The biblical hero had already become a potent symbol of African Americans’ collective strength in the fight against slavery and other barriers to social advancement. Eventually, he became associated with those who took up this struggle through passionate rhetoric, violence, and, at times, political compromise. In the process, persons like John Brown, Fredrick Douglass, Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner, and Booker T. Washington became memorialized as larger-than-life Samson figures.

Flotation Booms in the Cotton Spinning Industry, 1870–1890: A Comparative Study

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin'ichi Yonekawa
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Local Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth

In this wide-ranging article, Professor Yonekawa identifies and examines in detail the burst of cotton spinning company formation that occurred in the late nineteenth century among the major cotton-producing nations of the world. His comparative approach allows him to focus on key local factors responsible for the company flotation booms in the areas discussed. He is also able to compare the effects of more general circumstances in the industry, such as trends in the price of raw cotton and the disruption during the American Civil War, on the various locations. Finally, his multinational approach brings to light many intriguing questions and illuminates areas for productive future research.

The Return of the "Unnative": The Transnational Politics of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Sun-Joo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
American South ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
Transnational Politics ◽  
North And South

This essay offers a new, transnational reading of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South(1854-55), a novel that has traditionally been read in national terms. As a sailor, Frederick Hale belongs to a profession that connects the cotton-producing American South to the cotton-manufacturing British North. This alternate "North and South" resituates Gaskell's novel in transatlantic terms and offers a new, racialized prism through which to view the novel's central conflict between master and man. By historicizing Frederick's narrative within the nineteenth-century transatlantic antislavery movement, I argue that Frederick's metonymic connection to slavery expresses itself in his narrative's generic proximity to the American slave narrative. I consider the implications of Frederick's cosmopolitanism and suggest that it anticipates Gaskell's agonized feelings about the American Civil War, an internecine conflict that places at its center the problem of slavery.

“Benefit of the Doubt”: African-American Civil War Veterans and Pensions

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry M. Logue ◽  
Peter Blanck
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Pension System ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Union Army ◽  
War Veterans ◽  
Pension Income ◽  
Two Stages

Laws that provided pensions for Union army veterans were putatively color-blind, but whites and African Americans experienced the pension system differently. Black veterans were less likely to apply for pensions during the program's early years. Yet, no matter when they applied, they encountered two stages of bias, first from examining physicians and then, far more systematically, from Pension Bureau reviewers. The evidence suggests that pension income reduced mortality among African-American veterans, underscoring the tangible results of justice denied.

Making Black Service Matter

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Brian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Reconstruction Period ◽  
Post War

This chapter deals with black activists’ post-war campaign to convince federal officials to encode black citizenship and political rights in law. Black military service during the Civil War served as a linchpin in African Americans’ post-war arguments for black rights and citizenship. This chapter explains the dynamics of the Reconstruction period that led Congressional Republicans to pass the 14th and 15th Amendments. This chapter also covers the downfall of Reconstruction and the process by which, in the final decades of the nineteenth century, white Americans undermined the rights and citizenship that African Americans possessed in theory.

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