Democracy and the American Civil War: Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century

Contents

Acknowledgments

LEONNE M. HUDSON

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 Toward a New History of Posse Comitatus

Democracy and Race in the Late Reconstruction South: The White Leagues of Louisiana