edited by Leon Litwack and August Meier contributions by Nell Irvin Painter, David A. Gerber, Howard N. Rabinowitz, Alfred Moss, John Dittmer, George C Wright, Janey Sharp Hermann, Sharon Harley, Eric Foner, Albert J. Raboteau, Peter H Wood, Waldo E Martin, Jason H Silverman, Aimee Lee Cheek, William Cheek and Sterling Stuckey
University of Illinois Press, 1988 Paper: 978-0-252-06213-1
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Leon Litwack is the Morrison Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free State, 1790-1860, he received the Pulitzer Prize in history and the Francis Parkman Prize for Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.August Meier, author of Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 and co-author of Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980, is professor of history at Kent State University.