Where Historians Disagree: The Character Of Slavery Notes

Where Historians Disagree:

~ Slavery was romanticized 

~ Ulrich B. Phillips "American Negro Slavery" put slavery as a practice where kind masters looked over contented African American slaves.

~ 1941- Melvil J. Hopkins challenges Phillips idea that black americans retain little african heritage. 

~1943- Herbert Aptheker publishes a chronicle of slave revolts. 

~ "The Peculiar Institution" (1956, Kenneth Stamp) & Stanley Elkins "Slavery" described slavery like a work- prison. And Psychological Scars

~ 1970's- shifted to African Americans latter success. 

~ 1988- Elizabeth Fox- Genovese's "Within the Plantation House"  talked about how black women were workers and important to the family.

~ Recent years- Character of Slavery