Thank you, Harold. I thought as much, but it consensus builds confidence in
such things.
-- Stephan
on 5/13/02 10:53 AM, Harold S. Forsythe at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> I think you can rely on Michael Johnson's meticulous scholarship without
> worry.
> For an example, see the last two numbers of the William & Mary
> Quarterly, where Johnson has reexamined the evidence for the
> Denmark Vesey conspiracy and developed a new interpretation of
> the events. The WMQ published a symposium on Johnson's
> essay in its most recent edition.
>
> Date sent: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:44:15 -0400
> From: "Stephan A. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Free Black slave ownership
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Send reply to: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia
> history
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>
>> Thanks, Jon. Very good points, which will add nuance. I do know Berlin,
>> that's where I started.
>>
>> -- Stephan
>>
>>
>> on 5/12/02 9:36 AM, Jon Kukla at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>> Re question 2 and on the assumption that your gaze may extend beyond the
>>> boundaries of the Old Dominion.: I've just been reading Carl Brasseaux's
>>> essay on "Creoles of Color in Louisiana's Bayou Country" in connection
>>> with my book on the Louisiana Purchase - He offers very reliable figures
>>> on slave-holding by free people of color and raises the question and
>>> attempts to gauge the degree to which _some_ of their slave purchases
>>> were done for the purpose of manumitting or taking care of family
>>> members - while others were for laborers and with attitudes that
>>> paralleled their white planter neighbors. Of course Louisiana had a
>>> different legal approach to manumission than Virginia; the Louisiana law
>>> & practice is well described in the late Kim Hanger's essay on The
>>> Origins of NEw Orleans's Free People of Color - Both essays are found in
>>> James H. Dormon, ed Creoles of Color of the Gulf South (Knoxville: Univ
>>> of Tenn Press1996) along with other good things. I trust you're familiar
>>> with Ira Berlin's Slaves without Masters (New York: Oxford 1974) and
>>> Berlin's more recent big book (title of which eludes me until the coffee
>>> kicks in........) Brasseaux (who edits the journal Louisiana History)
>>> says good things about H. E. Sterkx's The Free Negro in Ante-Bellum
>>> Louisiana (Rutherford NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 1976
>>>
>>> Jon Kukla
>>>
>>> "Stephan A. Schwartz" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am doing research for a major national magazine piece I have been
>>>> asked to do which will touch on the issue of reparations. In the
>>>> course of my work, I have come across the following volume:
>>>>
>>>> Black Masters. A Family of Color in the Old South, Michael P. Johnson
>>>> and James L. Roak New York: Norton, 1984)
>>>>
>>>> Two questions for the list:
>>>>
>>>> 1.) Although the book seems sound, and comes from a reputable
>>>> publisher, does anyone know any reason I should be leery of the
>>>> research it uses (I am more interested in the research than the
>>>> arguments);
>>>>
>>>> 2.) Can anyone provide any additional material on free black ownership
>>>> of slaves.
>>>>
>>>> I am not writing a polemical piece and am not interested in arguing a
>>>> partisan position. My interest is solely factual accuracy, so that I
>>>> give an honest presentation of the history here. Since this is such an
>>>> explosive subject, I want to make sure I am on firm ground, and would
>>>> appreciate any input from other members of this list.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> -- Stephan
>>>>
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