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Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union by Louis P. Masur (review)

Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union by Louis P.... Now, Uncle Tom “invited his Negro comrades over to his cabin,” where they discussed “great fi ghters for freedom” instead of Christianity (67). Soviet editors also used the prefaces to contrast American racial inequality with Soviet socialist equality. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, only ten editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin have been published in Russia. But, MacKay posits, Russia’s fascination with America’s history of slavery did not disappear in 1989. Rather, Russian readers turned their attention to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936), which was published in sixty-nine editions between 1989 and 1993. Whereas True Songs of Freedom helps explain how Uncle Tom’s Cabin infl uenced Russian debates about the abolition of serfdom, the integration of the peasantry, and the relationship between the USSR and the United States, MacKay might have done more to explain how Russians conceived of race. What did Russian elites mean when they referred to serfs as “Russian Uncle Toms” or “our own Negroes” (36, 27)? How did Russian landowners perceive the “blackness” of African American slaves? Although MacKay supplies textual and visual examples that suggest Russians pos- sessed diff ering perceptions of race, the reader is left wanting more http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union by Louis P. Masur (review)

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The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 4 (2) – May 2, 2014
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Now, Uncle Tom “invited his Negro comrades over to his cabin,” where they discussed “great fi ghters for freedom” instead of Christianity (67). Soviet editors also used the prefaces to contrast American racial inequality with Soviet socialist equality. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, only ten editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin have been published in Russia. But, MacKay posits, Russia’s fascination with America’s history of slavery did not disappear in 1989. Rather, Russian readers turned their attention to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936), which was published in sixty-nine editions between 1989 and 1993. Whereas True Songs of Freedom helps explain how Uncle Tom’s Cabin infl uenced Russian debates about the abolition of serfdom, the integration of the peasantry, and the relationship between the USSR and the United States, MacKay might have done more to explain how Russians conceived of race. What did Russian elites mean when they referred to serfs as “Russian Uncle Toms” or “our own Negroes” (36, 27)? How did Russian landowners perceive the “blackness” of African American slaves? Although MacKay supplies textual and visual examples that suggest Russians pos- sessed diff ering perceptions of race, the reader is left wanting more

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Published: May 2, 2014

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