Watson W. Jennison, assistant professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has written for the Journal of Southern History and the North Carolina Historical Review. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
"[...] Jennison draws readers into the complex world of early
Georgia." -- Thomas Chase Hagood, Southern Spaces
"[...] Jennison draws upon a wide variety of source material to
present a fluent, thorough account of the spread of black slavery
and the attendent white supremacy in Georgia from 1750 to
1860.[...] he challenges those who would read the hardened racial
attitudes of the late antebellum era as inevitable, unchanging, and
uncontested.[...] Jennison [...] weave[s] a more complicated
tapestry based on relationships and negotiaons.Jennison
successfully challenges this narrative, making clear that racial
unity was not always a givenUltimately, Jennison's monograph helps
to flesh out the diversity and complexity of early Georgia's
social, political, and cultural lifeCultivating Race will appeal to
scholars of early American race relations, but its readable and
engaging style suggests that undergraduate students also would find
the book a useful addition to their reading lists" -- Rose
Stremlau, South Carolina Historical magazine
""Cultivating Race" is highly readable and recommended for graduate
courses on colonial and antebellum U.S. history." -- Kellie Carter
Jackson, The Journal of African American History
"Colonial Georgia has long been known as 'the debatable land'
contested by the British and Spanish crowns. That imperial
conflict, as Watson Jennison shows, was the tip of the iceberg. In
a sweeping account, Jennison describes the struggle between Low
Country planters, Revolutionary republicans, black maroons, free
people of color, and Native Americans to control the region.
Georgia's violent and tumultuous first century culminated in the
creation of a white man's republic. Readers of this excellent book
will know that the outcome was neither uncontested nor inevitable."
-- Claudio Saunt, author of Black, White, and Indian: Race and the
Unmaking of an American Family
"Finesses Georgia's racial history to show that divides were not
inevitable and that the call for the democratazation of white
society helped create a bifurcated society by the antebellum
era.... Jennison improves our understanding of how these divides
came to be." -- Choice
"Jennison's thoughtful synthesis of social, intellectual, and
political history will stand for some time to come as the best
one-volume account we have of slavery and racism in Georgia. This
is a book that students and scholars of slavery, the South, and
race in American history need to read and contend with." -- Anthony
E. Kaye, author of Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old
South
"Makes a genuine contribution to our understanding of antebellum
Georgia." -- Timothy J. Lockley, author of Maroon Communities in
South Carolina: A Documentary Record
"This book is a welcomed addition to the literature on race and
slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." -- Journal of
American History
"This book provides interesting insight into the history of Georgia
and demands a place on any early Americna reading list." --
Southern Historian
"This readable and engaging history provides a fresh perspective on
familiar chronologies. That the work at times seems to be
counterintuitive or counterfactual is a testament to the ways in
which Jennison challenges assumptions about the meanings of race
and the histories we tell ourselves." -- American Historian Review
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