Finalist for the 2004 Frederick Douglass Prize A century after the Pilgrims' landing, the
ongoing interactions of conquered Indians, English settlers, and enslaved Africans in …

On June 7, 1731, four men gathered around a table in a sout New England seaport, possibly
at a tavern, to transact some ness. Three of them? one of advanced middle age, the other t …

48 The Journal of American History June 2005 wardsean tradition. Although now largely
unknown, that tradition represented a major intellectual and social force in antebellum …

This article identifies and explains a certain previously undetected or downplayed analytical
problem in Max Weber's thesis arising from a causal link between Protestantism, above all …

William Bentley, pastor in Salem, Massachusetts from 1783 to his death in 1819, was unlike
anyone else in America's founding generation, for he had come to unique conclusions about …

In the autobiography of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, the first black author to be
published in Britain, slavery was represented at best neutrally and at worst as spiritually and …

This dissertation examines and reconstructs the lives of fugitive slaves who used the
maritime industries in New York, Philadelphia and Newport to achieve freedom. It focuses …

This dissertation explains the widespread white hostility towards black education that
erupted in Northern and Southern states during the early 1830s, a period that coincides with …

Purpose–The paper considers whether and how Calvinism as a specific type of religion,
ideology, and social system impacts political democracy in modern society. In contrast to the …

This dissertation charts the history of the idea of true self-love (ie, the pleasure of the self-
approbation of Christian love) as a form of moral motivation and a model for others …