"Every historian working on colonization will want to read and engage this provocative history of the experience of African colonization for the manumitted, the manumitters, and their proslavery critics."--American Historical Review"One of the most insightful treatments of colonization in years."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"Balanced, accessible, and thorough. Each of Burin's chapters explores the ACS from a specific perspective: ACS members who manumitted enslaved workers specifically to go to Liberia, the enslaved themselves, northern...
"Every historian working on colonization will want to read and engage this provocative history of the experience of African colonization for the manum...
"An important new dimension to the study of civil rights and southern society. The essays] chronicle the mostly untold story of southern white women--wives, mothers, club members--who possessed the moral courage to challenge Jim Crow traditions."--Jack Davis, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"Rich and insightful assessments of southern white women of privilege who chose to throw off the mantle of protection provided by race in order to address critical issues in southern society and politics."--Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University
While playing the southern lady for the white...
"An important new dimension to the study of civil rights and southern society. The essays] chronicle the mostly untold story of southern white wom...
Dessens examines the legacy of approximately 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees--whites, slaves, and free people of color--who settled in Louisiana between 1791 and 1815. Forced to flee their French Caribbean colony following a slave rebellion that gave birth to the Haitian Republic in January 1804, they spread throughout the Caribbean and along the North American Atlantic coast.Forming a relatively coherent diaspora for at least two decades, they concentrated in New Orleans. In this first comprehensive study of the Saint-Domingue influence, Dessens brings to light a refugee community composed in...
Dessens examines the legacy of approximately 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees--whites, slaves, and free people of color--who settled in Louisiana betwee...
A rich and diverse look at the many identities of a rich and diverse region. More than an homage to a gifted historian, it is a stand-alone, interdisciplinary inquiry into just how complicated this thing called the South can be. It s all here, from literature to politics, race to religion, gender to genealogy, Old South to New with voodoo and a doomed barge canal as added twists. Fascinating and absolutely up-to-date. John Mayfield, author of Counterfeit Gentlemen
Honors a truly preeminent scholar with essays of very high quality and clear significance. No historian has assayed...
A rich and diverse look at the many identities of a rich and diverse region. More than an homage to a gifted historian, it is a stand-alone, inter...
Links the global and local in new ways that point to a model for future work in the field. Richard Greenwald, Drew University
Frederickson has delivered compelling essays that brim with fascinating details and cogent observations about the past, present, and future of working people in the South. Connecting the New South, the Nuevo South, and the Global South seamlessly, she writes southern workers onto a world stage. Cindy Hahamovitch, College of William and Mary
Workers in the contemporary Global South the developing nations of Central and Latin America, Africa, and much of...
Links the global and local in new ways that point to a model for future work in the field. Richard Greenwald, Drew University
The Challenge of Blackness examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Freedom Struggle organizations to emerge in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A think tank based in Atlanta, the IBW sought to answer King's question "Where do we go from here?" Its solution was to organize a broad array of leading Black activists, scholars, and intellectuals to find ways to combine the emerging academic discipline of Black Studies with the Black political agenda. Throughout the 1970s, debates...
The Challenge of Blackness examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Freedo...
"A major contribution to our understanding of the American South and the history of American religion and reform."--Dee E. Andrews, author of The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800
"A model study of an antislavery, reformist minority trying to find its place in the Antebellum South."--Thomas D. Hamm, author of The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907
This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and...
"A major contribution to our understanding of the American South and the history of American religion and reform."--Dee E. Andrews, author of Th...
Ambitious and convincing. This is the first examination of the role of European immigrants in the most southern of U.S. cities and the way that they and their ethnic children conformed to or dissented from the norms of the dominant white Southern culture. Walter D. Kamphoefner, author of The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri Demonstrates the importance of Charleston s Germans and their relationships with African Americans throughout these thirty turbulent years. Dennis C. Rousey, author of Policing the Southern City: New Orleans, 1805 1889 A provocative study that...
Ambitious and convincing. This is the first examination of the role of European immigrants in the most southern of U.S. cities and the way that they a...
"Offers a much needed discussion of racial politics in the premier New South city. Readers will discover that courageous struggles for justice, as much as compromise, have marked the so-called Atlanta-style since Reconstruction."--W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston Atlanta stands out among southern cities for many reasons, not least of which is the role African Americans have played in local politics. Black Power in Dixie offers the first comprehensive study of black politics in the city. From Reconstruction to recent times, the middle-class black leadership in Atlanta, while...
"Offers a much needed discussion of racial politics in the premier New South city. Readers will discover that courageous struggles for justice, as muc...
"Never has the story of American African colonization been so thoroughly explored."--Violet Showers Johnson, coauthor of African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America "Succeeds admirably in putting us back in touch with the diverse sources of support for the American Colonization Society. We learn much about the complex nature of human motivations and about the changes in attitudes, goals, and government policy that occurred over time."--Paul D. Escott, author of Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States "Thought-provoking and challenging....
"Never has the story of American African colonization been so thoroughly explored."--Violet Showers Johnson, coauthor of African & American: West Afri...
