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John W. Blassingame

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Bachelors History Howard University

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According to Wikipedia, John Wesley Blassingame was an American historian and pioneer in the study of slavery in the United States. He was the former chairman of the African-American studies program at Yale University. Biography Blassingame was born on March 23, 1940, in Covington, Georgia, to Grady and Odessa Blassingame. He received a bachelor's degree at Fort Valley State College , a master's degree at Howard University , and a master's degree and a doctorate at Yale University. His doctoral dissertation, written under the supervision of C. Vann Woodward, was titled A Social and Economic Study of the Negro in New Orleans, 1860–1880.

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John W. Blassingame's Published Works

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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South (1973) (600)
Slave testimony : two centuries of letters, speeches, interviews, and autobiographies (1978) (145)
Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems (1975) (118)
Long Memory: The Black Experience in America (1984) (99)
Black New Orleans, 1860-1880 (1973) (98)
The Booker T. Washington papers (1973) (54)
Black New Orleans. (1975) (37)
Before the Ghetto: The Making of the Black Community in Savannah, Georgia, 1865–1880 (1973) (25)
Black Reconstruction Revisited@@@Black New Orleans, 1860-1880.@@@First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction. (1972) (24)
The Recruitment of Colored Troops in Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, 1863–1865 (1967) (17)
New perspectives on Black studies (1974) (14)
Black Autobiographies as History and Literature (1973) (9)
The Booker T. Washington Papers. Volume I: The Autobiographical Writings. (1973) (4)
The Frederick Douglass Papers. Volume 3: 1855-63. (1987) (3)
American Nationalism and Other Loyalities in the Southern Colonies 1763-1775 (1968) (3)
New Perspective on Black Studies (1972) (2)
Black Defenders of America, 1775-1973: A Reference and Pictorial History (1975) (2)
Speeches, debates, and interviews (1979) (2)
The Planter on the Couch: Earl Thorpe and the Psychodynamics of Slavery (1975) (2)
Ideas Without Men@@@Black Protest: Issues and Tactics. (1975) (1)
Bibliographical Essay: Foreign Writers View Cuban Slavery (1972) (1)
The Value of History and Innovative American History Textbooks@@@In Search of America: Community/National Identity/Democracy.@@@The Restless Americans: The Challenge of Change in American History. (1973) (1)
Inside Slavery@@@The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. (1973) (0)
Integrating Southern History@@@Slave Testimony: Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. (1978) (0)
Annotated index of letters in the Liberators, Anti-slavery record, Human rights, and the Observer, 1835-1865 (1980) (0)
Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821–1860. By Julia Floyd Smith. (Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 1973. ix + 249 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $8.50.) (1974) (0)
American Studies in Review FleshingOutAbolitionist History:The Cases of Tubman and Douglass (2008) (0)
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World The Slaves Made. By Eugene D. Genovese (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. xxii plus 823 pp. $17.50) (1976) (0)
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1: Volumes 1-14 (1972) (0)
Revising America: A Symposium at the National Endowment for the Humanities (1980) (0)
Annotated index of letters in ther National anti-slavery standard, 1840-1860 (1984) (0)
The Revolution that Never Was: The Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1980. (1982) (0)
Annotated index of letters in the Friend of man, Pennsylvania freeman, Advocate of freedom,and American & foreign anti-slavery reporter, 1836-1854 (1981) (0)
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1 (1972) (0)
The Balancing Act: Quota Hiring in Higher Education/Black Studies Revisited. George Roche , Alan Reynolds , Ernest Van Den Haag (1975) (0)
The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series Two: Autobiographical Writings: Volume 1 (2001) (0)
Annotated index of letters in the Philanthropist, Emancipator, Genius of universal emancipation, Abolition intelligencer, African observer, and the Liberator, 1817-1845 (1980) (0)

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