| American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Contributor(s): Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell (Author), Genovese, Eugene D. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0807101095 ISBN-13: 9780807101094 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1966 Annotation: 'Phillips came close to greatness as a historian, perhaps as close as any historian this country has produced. We may leave to those who live in the world of absolute good and evil the task of explaining how a man with such primitive views of fundamental social questions could write such splendid history...He asked more and better questions than many of us still are willing to admit, and he carried on his investigations with consistent freshness and critical intelligence...American Negro Slavery is not the last word on its subject, merely the indispensable first.'--Eugene D. Genovese, from his Foreword |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 301.452 |
| LCCN: 66031730 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 5.52" W x 8.51" (1.48 lbs) 530 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1918, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's American Negro Slavery was widely hailed upon publication as the most comprehensive and accurate examination of enslaved Africans in the South by an academic historian. In the 1950s, however, a new generation of historians--led by Kenneth Stamp--challenged many of Phillips's inaccurate and racist views about slavery. While many historians today acknowledge that American Negro Slavery is a pioneering work, most agree that Phillips's misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and overt racism profoundly diminish his conclusions. |