Tag: Walter Johnson

  • Brute Ideology Dissent Fall 2014 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Director, Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History Harvard University Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields. Verso, 2012, 310 pp. The Problem of Slavery in…

  • The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s Journal of American History Volume 87, Issue 1 (June 2000) pages 43-56 DOI: 10.2307/2567914 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University In January of 1857 Jane Morrison was sold in the…