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Slavery and the American South : essays and commentaries / by Roger D. Abrahams ... [et al.] ; edited by Winthrop D. Jordan.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium (25th : 2000 : University of Mississippi)
- Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium.
- Series:
- Chancellor's symposium series ; 2000.
- Chancellor's symposium series ; 2000
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Southern States--History--Congresses.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Southern States--History--Congresses.
- African Americans.
- Southern States--History--Congresses.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- AMERICAN HISTORY -- African American --> In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1970's it was the subject of the first Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History held at the University of Mississippi. Since then, scholarly interest in slavery has proliferated ever more widely. In fact, the editor of this retrospective volume states that since the 1970's ""the expansion has resulted in a corpus that has a huge number of components-scores...
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Logic and Experience: Thomas Jefferson's Life in the Law; Commentary: Peter S. Onuf; The Peculiar Fate of the Bourgeois Critique of Slavery; Commentary: Walter Johnson; Reflections on Law, Culture, and Slavery; Commentary: Laura F. Edwards; Rape in Black and White: Sexual Violence in the Testimony of Enslaved and Free Americans; Commentary: Jan Lewis; The Long History of a Low Place: Slavery on the South Carolina Coast, 1670-1870; Commentary: William Dusinberre; Paul Robeson and Richard Wright on the Arts and Slave Culture
- Commentary: Roger D. Abrahams Notes; Contributors; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-43440-7
- 9786613434401
- 1-60473-045-5
- 1-4237-3194-8
- OCLC:
- 780425777
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