American Negro Slavery - Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell
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¿Phillips came close to greatness as a historian, perhaps as close and any historian this country has produced. We may leave to those who live in the world of absolute good and evil the task of explaining how a man with such primitive views of fundamental social questions could write such splendid history. . . . He asked more and better questions than many of us still are willing to admit, and he carried on his investigations with consistent freshness and critical intelligence. . . . AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY is not the last word on its subject; merely the indispensable first.¿¿ Eugene D. Genovese…mehr

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¿Phillips came close to greatness as a historian, perhaps as close and any historian this country has produced. We may leave to those who live in the world of absolute good and evil the task of explaining how a man with such primitive views of fundamental social questions could write such splendid history. . . . He asked more and better questions than many of us still are willing to admit, and he carried on his investigations with consistent freshness and critical intelligence. . . . AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY is not the last word on its subject; merely the indispensable first.¿¿ Eugene D. Genovese
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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.