Clarence
Walkerlinkis Professor of History
at University of California,
Davis. Educated at University
of California Berkeley, his
publications include: We Can't
Go Home Again: An Argument About
Afrocentrism, "Asante’s
Aposteori” in Chretien,
Fauvelle, and Perrot, Afrocentrisme:
Histoire, Memoire, Identities
, Recomposee’s, “Denial
Is Not A River In Egypt: Sally
Hemings and Thomas Jefferson”
in History, Memory, and Civic
Culture , Edited By Jan Lewis
and Peter Onuf, and “If
Everybody was a King, who Built
the Pyramids?: Afrocentrism
and Black American History,”
in Emerging Structures, ed.,
Rudi Keller and Karl Menges.
Recently he served as academic
advisor to the PBS American
Experience television series
: Reconstruction:
The Second Civil War
(2004).
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and other related resources check
out our weblinks below
North American Slave Narratives
> Documenting the American
South
Online ollection includes all
the existing autobiographical
narratives of fugitive and former
slaves published as broadsides,
pamphlets, or books in English
up to 1920. (e.g. Mary Prince,
Venture Smith, Olaudah Equiano,
Solomon Northup, and more) http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html
Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists
and American Slavery by
James Brewer Stewart.a
basic history of the abolitionist
movement beginning with the
period of the American Revolutionlink
to Amazon
The Barber of Natchez;
by Edwin Davis and William Hogan
In 1938
the 2,000 page diary of William
Johnson of Natchez, Mississippi
was discovered along with numerous
other personal and legal documents.
The widow of Johnson's grandson
made possible the publication
of the diary in 1951 which led
to publication of The
Barber of Natchez
in 1954. link
to Amazon
Great Slave Narratives
by Arna Wendell Bontemps link
to Amazon
The Classic Slave Narratives
by Henry Louis, Jr. Gates link
to Amazon
The Bondwoman's Narrative
by Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis
Gates Jr. link
to Amazon
