'Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves': Carter G. Woodson’s Journal of Negro History 'Invents' the Study of Slavery

Autor: Brenda E. Stevenson
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: The Journal of African American History. 100:698-720
ISSN: 2153-5086
1548-1867
DOI: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.100.4.0698
Popis: In 1935, John B. Cade, an African American historian, college archivist and administrator, published an article in The Journal of Negro History drawn directly from the autobiographical accounts of formerly enslaved men and women and former slaveholders who resided in Texas and Louisiana. Cade had been intellectually aroused by the assertion of slavery historian Ulrich B. Phillips that enslaved African Americans had been content with their place under the institution. Phillips, a southerner who was mentored by William Dunning and taught at the University of Wisconsin and then Yale, was the leading slavery scholar of his generation. Phillips’s
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