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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Preface 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 Toil
Shall 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"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Über den Autor / die Autorin
By J. Michael Martinez
Zusammenfassung
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.
