A history and analysis of slavery and its legacy on U.S. campuses
Leslie M. Harris (Editor)
LESLIE M. HARRIS is a professor of history at Northwestern
University. She is the coeditor, with Ira Berlin, of Slavery in New
York and the coeditor, with Daina Ramey Berry, of Slavery and
Freedom in Savannah (Georgia).
James T. Campbell (Editor)
JAMES T. CAMPBELL is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S.
History at Stanford University. He is the author of Middle
Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005.
Alfred L. Brophy (Editor)
ALFRED L. BROPHY is the D. Paul Jones Chairholder in Law at the
University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa. He is the author
or editor of numerous books, including Reconstructing the
Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations,
Reconciliation; Reparations: Pro and Con; and University, Court,
and Slave: Proslavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and
the Coming of Civil War. In 2004 he authored an apology for slavery
at the University of Alabama, which was passed by the Faculty
Senate and is believed to be the first of its kind in the United
States.
Given this volume’s readability and timeliness, I envision the
essays helping to bring the history of education nearer to the
center of historical study. Well balanced in terms of geographical
emphasis, temporal coverage, attention to blacks and whites (and
women and men), and linkage of past and present, they contribute to
the larger project of developing a new master narrative that
reaches beyond the masters. Instructors of history courses on
slavery, education, and memory will do well to assign the book.
Those who wish to engage students with archives will find guidance.
General readers can learn much here about the centrality of slavery
to American life and the need to confront its impacts today.
*The American Historical Review*
The book’s greatest strength is its methodological diversity,
ranging from chronological histories to autobiographical essays.
The authors make clear the inextricable links between slavery,
students, faculty and administrators, African colonization, and the
institutionalization of Christian faiths in the US.
*The Southern Register*
Historians of slavery and/or of higher education as well as
elementary to college level history teachers, will no doubt find
these essays helpful.
*The Black Scholar*
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