Description: Using a variety of primary documents including newspapers, diaries, correspondence, and plantation records, Jennison offers an in-depth examination of the evolution of racism and racial ideology in the lower South.
Brief description: Watson W. Jennison, assistant professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has written for the Journal of Southern History and the North Carolina Historical Review. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Review Quotes:
Makes a genuine contribution to our understanding of antebellum Georgia.
--Timothy J. Lockley, author of Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record