Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

?. . . As a guide to the shifting winds of interpreation, North Carolina State University's John David Smith and John C. Inscoe of the University of Georgia have prepared this volume of essays and reviews. It contains twenty-six articles and excerpts from larger works, all published between 1913 and 1986, by authors who evaluated Phillip's career and contributions. The selections are well balanced between the affirmative and the negative positions in the continuing debate, and the editing is meticulous and unobtrusive. It is a useful, even provocative volume that makes available to the scholar a historical road map of the present state of Phillips and of the work he so effectively accomplished.?-The North Carolina Historical Review ." . . As a guide to the shifting winds of interpreation, North Carolina State University's John David Smith and John C. Inscoe of the University of Georgia have prepared this volume of essays and reviews. It contains twenty-six articles and excerpts from larger works, all published between 1913 and 1986, by authors who evaluated Phillip's career and contributions. The selections are well balanced between the affirmative and the negative positions in the continuing debate, and the editing is meticulous and unobtrusive. It is a useful, even provocative volume that makes available to the scholar a historical road map of the present state of Phillips and of the work he so effectively accomplished."-The North Carolina Historical Review

JOHN DAVID SMITH is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Window on the War (1976), Black Slavery in the Americas (Greenwood Press, 1982) An Old Creed for the New South (Greenwood Press, 1985) and The Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (Greenwood Press, 1988). JOHN C. INSCOE is editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia. In 1988-89 he served as visiting editor of the Journal of Southern History and is the author of Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Seasonal Crisis in Western North Carolina and numerous articles on slavery and race relations.

Preface A Chronology of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's Life and Career Introduction The Southerner The Progressive The Racist The Scientific Historian The Social and Economic Historian The Political Historian Bibliographies Index