Title Slavery and the American South : Essays and Commentaries

Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages) Series Chancellor's symposium series ; 2000 Chancellor's symposium series ; 2000. 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. AbrahamsNotes; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y 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 1970s 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 1970s "the expansion has resulted in a corpus that has a huge number of components-scores, ev Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Congresses African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- Congresses HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) African Americans Slavery SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- Congresses Subject Southern States Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781604730456 1604730455

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