Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and the New History of Emancipation: A Critical Assessment

Activity: Talk or presentation typesOral presentation

Description

Panel 5. Writing History and Culture: Antislavery, Emancipation, and Culture

Chair: James Sidbury, Rice University

David Turley, University of Kent: “Black History for Antislavery in the 1840s and 1850s: Forms of Writing and the Focus on Haiti”

Brian Kelly, Queen’s University of Belfast: “Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and the New History of Emancipation: A Critical Assessment”

David Cox, Swansea University: “‘A Haiti in the Heart of the United States’: White Intellectuals and Black Folk Culture during the Gilded Age”
Period04 Apr 2014
Event titleBritish American Nineteenth Century Historians Meeting
Event typeConference
LocationHouston, United States, TexasShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Historiography
  • African American History
  • Slavery
  • Emancipation