Slavery, Race and American History: Historical Conflict, Trends and Method, 1866-1953

ISBN-13: 9780765603777 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str.

John David Smith

Opis

These essays introduce the complexities of researching and analyzing race. This book focuses on problems confronted while researching, writing and interpreting race and slavery, such as conflict between ideological perspectives, and changing interpretations of the questions.

Spis treści

Presenting selected histories in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, this work discusses: political and economic issues; marriage practices, motherhood and enslavement; and religious beliefs and spiritual development. Famous women, including Hatshepsut, Hortensia, Aisha, Hildegard of Bingen and Sei Shonangan, are discussed as well as lesser known and anonymous women. Both primary and secondary source readings are included.

O autorze

John David Smith is Graduate Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University. In 1998–1999, he served as Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Amerika-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Dr. Smith is the author or editor of eleven books, including An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918 (1985, 1991), Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (1988, 1997, with Randall M. Miller), Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: A Southern Historian and His Critics (1990, 1993, with John C. Inscoe), Black Voices from Reconstruction (1996, 1997), and an edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’s John Brown (M.E. Sharpe, 1997). Professor Smith received the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America for his eleven-volume documentary, Anti-Black Thought, 1863–1925: “The Negro Problem” (1993).