ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |52 pages
Conflicts
chapter |10 pages
W.E.B. Du Bois and Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Symbolic Antagonists of the Progressive Era
chapter |11 pages
Historical or Personal Criticism?
The Case of Frederic Bancroft versus Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
part |77 pages
Trends
chapter |8 pages
Neglected but Not Forgotten
Howell M. Henry and the “Police Control” of Slaves in South Carolina
chapter |8 pages
A Different View of Slavery
Black Historians Attack the New Proslavery Argument, 1890–1920
chapter |10 pages
The Unveiling of Slave Folk Culture, 1865–1920
part |34 pages
Method
chapter |11 pages
“Keep 'Em in a Fire-Proof Vault”
Pioneer Southern Historians Discover Plantation Records
chapter |10 pages
The Historian as Archival Advocate
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and the Records of Georgia and the South
chapter |11 pages
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649–1863
The Historian as Documentary Editor
