Contested Democracy

Manisha Sinha is associate professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina and, with John H. Bracey Jr., the editor of the two-volume African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-first Century. At present, she is working on a book on African Americans and the movement to abolish slavery between 1775 and 1865. Penny Von Eschen is professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 and Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. She is currently working on a transnational history of Cold War memory, as well as a study of the global circulation of American culture in the post-World War II era.

• Acknowledgments Introduction, by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen 1. An Alternative Tradition of Radicalism: African American Abolitionists and the Metaphor of Revolution, by Manisha Sinha 2. Isaiah Rynders and the Ironies of Popular Democracy in Antebellum New York, by Tyler Anbinder 3. Leave of Court: African American Claims-Making in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford, by Martha S. Jones 4. City Women: Slavery and Resistance in Antebellum St. Louis, by Martha Saxton 5. Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Markets: Antebellum Merchant Clerks, Industrial Statistics, and the Tautologies of Profit, by Michael Zakim 6. Make "Every Slave Free, and Every Freeman a Voter": The African American Construction of Suffrage Discourse in the Age of Emancipation, by Xi Wang 7. Making It Fit: The Federal Government, Liberal Individualism, and the American West", by Melinda Lawson 8. Reconstructing the Empire of Cotton: A Global Story, by Sven Beckert 9. Cuba Libre and American Imperial Nationalism: Conflicting Views of Racial Democracy in the Post-Reconstruction United States, by Alessandra Lorini 10. Transnational Solidarities: The Sacco and Vanzetti Case in Global Perspective, by Lisa McGirr 11. "An Ironic Testimony to the Value of American Democracy": Assimilationism and the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans, by Mae M. Ngai 12. Student Protest, "Law and Order," and the Origins of African American Studies in California, by Martha Biondi 13. Duke Ellington Plays Baghdad: Rethinking Hard and Soft Power from the Outside In, by Penny Von Eschen 14. The Story of American Freedom-Before and After 9/11, by Eric Foner Afterword: "From the Archives and from the Heart", by David W. Blight Notes on Contributors Index

An exceptional collection. -- Alexander Tsesis The Journal of American History A breathtaking range of intellectual inquiry. -- Jane Dailey Journal of Southern History