Morality and slavery

European Review

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 393-399

  Morgan, Philip D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MORALITY; SLAVE;

EID: 33745011364     PISSN: 10627987     EISSN: 14740575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1062798706000408     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. P. Novick (1988) That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (New York: Cambridge University Press), p. 2.
2. D.H. Fischer (1970) Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (New York: Harper & Row), pp. 78-82.
3. D. Knowles (1955) The Historian and Character (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 19.
4. E.H. Carr (1961) What is History? (London: Macmillan), p. 79.
5. particularly fine account, balanced and sane, is G. Wright (1976) History as a moral science, American Historical Review, 81, 1-11.
6. W.E.H. Lecky (1869) A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, 2 Pols. (London: Longmans, Green), I: p. 161.
7. U.B. Phillips (1918) American Negro Slavery (New York: D. Appleton & Co.), p. 291.
8. K. Stampp (1956) The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (New York: Alfred A. Knopf), pp. vii-viii.
9. S. Elkins (1968) Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, originally published 1959), p. 23.
10. Novick's account in P. Novick (1988) That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 229-230, 348-354, 480-481, is excellent.
11. The classic work stressing damage is S. Elkins (1968) Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, originally published 1959).
12. For a study in the contributionist mode, see J.A. Carney (2001) Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
13. Useful historiographical treatments include D.B. Davis (1986) From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 187-206.
14. P.J. Parish (1989) Slavery: History and Historians (New York: Harper & Row).
15. P. Novick (1988) That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 472-491 (quote on p. 487).
16. R. Fogel (2003) The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press).
17. For two recent contributions to the debate, contrast G.M. Hall (2005) Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press) with R. Price (2006)
18. On the miracle of creolization, in: K.A. Yelvington (Ed.) Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora (Sante Fe: School of American Research Press), pp. 113-145.
19. R. Harms (2002) The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade (New York: Basic Books), pp. xiii, 5, 245, 303.
20. R.L. Sparks (2004) The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), pp. 130-131.
21. V. Carretta (2005) Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press), p. xii.
22. A. Hochschild (2005) Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), pp. 30, 369-372.
23. Unraveling the narrative (2005) Chronicle of Higher Education, 52(3), A11.
24. M. Stein (2003) 'OlaudaA Equiano: Representation and reality': an international one-day conference, Early American Literature, 38(3), 543-545.
25. See also A.X. Byrd (2006) Eboe, country, nation and Gustavus Vassa's Interesting Narrative, William and Mary Quarterly, 63, 123-148.
26. M. Zuckerman and P. Finkelman have been particularly critical of Jefferson, but also see C. Cruise O'Brien (1996) The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
27. and G. Wills (2003) 'Negro President': Jefferson and the Slave Power (New York: Houghton Mifflin).
28. Cf J.E. Lewis and P.S. Onuf (Eds) (1999) Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia),
29. and A. Helo and P. Onuf (2003) Jefferson, morality, and the problem of slavery, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 60, 583-614.
30. For the broader debate, see H. Wiencek (2003) An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
31. D. Waldstreicher (2004) Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution (New York: Hill and Wang)
32. and A. Levy (2005) The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves (New York: Random House).