American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime / Edition 1

by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene D. Genovese

Overview

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 Stampp—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.
This 1966 edition includes a foreword by Eugene D. Genovese, author of numerous academic works on slavery, including the Bancroft Prize-winning Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807101094
Publisher:	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date:	11/01/1966
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	530
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877–1934) was an American historian who initially defined the field of the social and economic history of the antebellum American South and slavery.

Eugene Genovese, professor of history at the University of Rochester, is editor of Marxist Perspectives, a fellow of the Academy of Arts & Science, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians. His books include Roll, Jordon, Roll (for which he received a Bancroft Prize in 1975), The Political Economy of Slavery, The World the Slaveholders Made, and In Red & Black. He is also the editor of the two volumes by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, American Negro Slavery and The Slave Economy of the Old South.

What People are Saying About This

Eugene D. Genovese

Phillips came close to greatness as a historian, perhaps as close as any historian this country has produced. We many leave to those who live in the world of absolute good and evil the task of explaining how a man with such primative views of fundamental social questions could write such splendid history.