Joseph P Reidy
Biographic Data
| ID | 216548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph P Reidy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph P |
| FAMILY NAME | Reidy |
| SIGNATURE | REIDY J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4927-3109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen
American Mirror
Journal Article American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation Get access American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation. By Roberto Saba. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xiv, 373 pp. $37.00.) Joseph P Reidy Joseph P Reidy Emeritus, Howard University, Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Iss…
At the Threshold of Liberty
Reviewed by: At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley Joseph P. Reidy (bio) At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. By Tamika Y. Nunley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 254. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $27.95.) Tamika Nunley’s At the Threshold of Liberty examines African American women’s struggles to achieve fr…
Early American Rebels
Like her previous work, Noeleen McIlvenna's Early American Rebels views the seventeenth-century political history of British North America through the lens of the English Civil Wars (1642–1651). Here she focuses on the Chesapeake Bay region, especially the colony of Maryland, where the Calvert family held sway for generations thanks to the charter King Charles I granted them in 1632. Staunch royalists, the Calverts were also Catholics, favoring t…
The African American Struggle for Citizenship Rights in the Northern United States during the Civil War
Moral Contagion
Reviewed by: Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America by Michael A. Schoeppner Joseph P. Reidy (bio) Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America. By Michael A. Schoeppner. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 252. $59.99.) Among the historical works on the relationship between African-descended people and the sea, W. Jeffrey Bolster’s Black …
Masterless Men
The Black Military Experience
The service of more than 200,000 African American men under arms helped tip the balance decisively in favor of the Union’s victory in the Civil War. In sheer numbers alone, they helped to resolve the potential need for soldiers that federal strategists foresaw as early as 1862. But numbers tell only part of the story. Most of these men entered the ranks after the Emancipation Proclamation signaled the Union’s emerging war against slavery. Their s…
Anne C. Bailey. The Weeping Time
Over the course of two days in early March 1859, a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia, hosted a massive auction of enslaved persons. In The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History, Anne C. Bailey surveys the event and its aftermath. By the time the auctioneer’s gavel fell silent, she explains, 436 enslaved persons belonging to a single owner, Pierce Mease Butler, had been sold to bidders from across the South and beyond…
Recaptured Africans
Sharla M. Fett's Recaptured Africans contributes significantly to scholarship on the transatlantic trade, focusing especially on four slave ships that the U.S. Navy intercepted en route to Cuba between 1858 and 1860. Once captured, each vessel was escorted to the United States—Charleston in one case and Key West in the others—where the recaptives were suspended “between enslavement and emancipation” (p. 4). The story begins with the 1819 federal …
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
The new history of the antebellum South finds more similarities with the North than differences, even when capitalism is the comparative yardstick. Employing a fast-paced style and clever turns of phrase, Calvin Schermerhorn paints larger-than-life portraits of the leading slave traders who made “slavery's capitalism” (p. 136). They included Austin Woolfolk, the ruthless Baltimorean who created “a brand name synonymous with the slave trade” (p. 3…
The American Crucible
Robin Blackburn's The American Crucible is the latest installment of his extended treatment of African slavery in the Atlantic world. Chronologically and thematically it overlaps his two previous works, The Making of New World Slavery: From Baroque to Modern, 1492–1800 (1997) and The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 (1988). Here, Blackburn intertwines the history of slavery with that of abolition from the fifteenth century through the nin…
Intensely Human
Reviewed by: Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War Joseph P. Reidy Margaret Humphreys. Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xx + 197 pp. Ill. $40.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-8696-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8696-6). In Intensely Human, Margaret Humphreys examines health disparities between black and white soldiers in the U.S. army durin…
The Sugar Masters
Richard Follett's important study examines the relationship between sugar planters and their slaves as the key to understanding the world they built together in the swamps of southern Louisiana. The Sugar Masters traces the origins of this world to the market revolution of the early nineteenth century, when sugar growers made a viable commercial enterprise of growing a tropical staple in a region beset by annual frosts. Their system of “market pa…
Roots of Disorder
Journal Article Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817–80. By Christopher Waldrep. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xvi, 267 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-252-02425-7. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06732-0.) Get access Joseph P. Reidy Joseph P. Reidy Howard University, Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, Ju…
The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps
Book Review| October 01 2000 The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Olen Cole Jr.. Joseph P. Reidy Joseph P. Reidy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 824–826. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.4.824 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph P. Reidy; The…
Free to Work
In this intriguing and innovative work, James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish in the South during and after the Civil War by exploring labor law in the antebellum North and South and its role in the development of a capitalist labor market. Identifying the emergence of conservative, moderate, and liberal stances on state intervention in the labor market, Schmidt develops three important case studies--wartime Reconstruction in Lou…
Richard S. Ewell
Journal Article Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life. By Donald C. Pfanz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863–1865. Ed. by Henrietta Stratum Jaquette. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War. Ed. by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. New York: Cambridge University Press Get access J. Matthew Gallman…
How Curious a Land
The Louisiana Native Guards
A World Turned Upside Down
Journal Article A World Turned Upside Down: The Palmers of South Santee, 1818–1881. Ed. by Louis P. Towles. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, Caroline McKissick Dial South Caroliniana Library Endowment Fund, and the South Caroliniana Society, 1996. xiv, 1,067 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-047-2.) Get access Joseph P. Reidy Joseph P. Reidy Howard University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
"David M. Oshinsky, "Worse Than Slavery
Free at Last
Masters & Lords
Journal Article Masters & Lords: Mid-19th-century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers. By Shearer Davis Bowman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi, 357 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-505281-1.) Get access Joseph P. Reidy Joseph P. Reidy Howard University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945…
The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves
Frequency and chronological distribution of dental enamel hypoplasia in enslaved African Americans
The dentition of 27 enslaved African Americans from archaeological sites in Maryland and Virginia were examined. All 17 males and 7 of the 10 females in this study exhibited enamel hypoplastic defects indicative of systemic nutritional and disease stresses interfering with amelogenesis. Estimates of the ages of occurrence of these defects show that most occur between 1.5 and 4.5 years of age, 0.5–3.75 years later than historically documented wean…
The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves
The American Crucible
Robin Blackburn's The American Crucible is the latest installment of his extended treatment of African slavery in the Atlantic world. Chronologically and thematically it overlaps his two previous works, The Making of New World Slavery: From Baroque to Modern, 1492–1800 (1997) and The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 (1988). Here, Blackburn intertwines the history of slavery with that of abolition from the fifteenth century through the nin…
Free to Work
In this intriguing and innovative work, James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish in the South during and after the Civil War by exploring labor law in the antebellum North and South and its role in the development of a capitalist labor market. Identifying the emergence of conservative, moderate, and liberal stances on state intervention in the labor market, Schmidt develops three important case studies--wartime Reconstruction in Lou…
Acadian to Cajun
"David M. Oshinsky, "Worse Than Slavery
Unfree Labor
Journal Article Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. By Peter Kolchin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. xvi + 517 pp. $25.00.) Get access Joseph P. Reidy Joseph P. Reidy Howard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889714 Published: 01 June 1988
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
The new history of the antebellum South finds more similarities with the North than differences, even when capitalism is the comparative yardstick. Employing a fast-paced style and clever turns of phrase, Calvin Schermerhorn paints larger-than-life portraits of the leading slave traders who made “slavery's capitalism” (p. 136). They included Austin Woolfolk, the ruthless Baltimorean who created “a brand name synonymous with the slave trade” (p. 3…
The Terrain of Freedom
Ira Berlin, Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland; The Terrain of Freedom: The Struggle Over the Meaning of Free Labor in the U
Books reviewed
Workers Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. By David Montgomery. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. viii, 189 pp. $14.95. Essays in Southern Labor History: Selected Papers, Southern Labor History Conference, 1976. Edited by Gary M. Fink and Merl E. Reed, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. xv 275 pp. $19.95. Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry. By Brian J. McCormick. …
Freedom
Journal Article Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States. Series II: The Black Military Experience. Ed. by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xxxv + 852 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $37.50.) Get access V. P. Franklin V. P. Franklin Yale University Search for other works by …
James Oakes, The Ruling Race
From Great White Men to Blacks Emerging from Bondage, with Innovations in Documentary Editing
Freedom
U. B. Phillips
Journal Article U. B. Phillips: A Southern Mind. By John Herbert Roper. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1984. vi + 198 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.95.) Get access Joseph P. Reidy Joseph P. Reidy Howard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Pages 889–890, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888559 Published: 01 March 1985
Reshaping Southern history
The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880. Michael Wayne. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press. 1983. xiv, 226 pp. £22.95. White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth‐Century Georgia. Charles L. Flynn, Jr. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press. 1983. xiv, 196 pp. £17.90
Freedom
Journal Article Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867: Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States. Vol. I: The Destruction of Slavery. Ed. by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xxxviii + 852 pp. $39.50.) Get access V. P. Franklin V. P. Franklin Arizona State University Search for other works by this …
The Terrain of Freedom
Ira Berlin, Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland; The Terrain of Freedom: The Struggle Over the Meaning of Free Labor in the U
Freedom Then
Unfree Labor
Journal Article Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. By Peter Kolchin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. xvi + 517 pp. $25.00.) Get access Joseph P. Reidy Joseph P. Reidy Howard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889714 Published: 01 June 1988
Branches without Roots
The Black Military Experience, 1861–1867
F reedom came to most American slaves only through force of arms. The growing Northern commitment to emancipation availed nothing without victory on the battlefield. But once federal policy makers had committed the Union to abolishing slavery, the Northern armies that eroded Confederate territory simultaneously expanded the domain of freedom. The Union army perforce became an army of liberation, and as it did, both the Northern public and the fre…
Buffalo Soldiers
Slaves No More
The three essays in this volume present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. The first essay traces the destruction of slavery by discussing the shift from a war for the Union to a war against slavery. The slaves are shown to have shaped the destiny of the nation through their determination to place their liberty on the wartime agenda. The second essay examines the evolution of freedom in occupied ar…
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps, Reidy has elaborated both the large and small narratives of this development, connecting global forces with the initiatives and reactions of ordinary …
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
Acadian to Cajun
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas
Fair to Middlin
Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie
Missouri's "Little Dixie" has been variously defined in terms of that state's slavery, southern folklore, and culture.R. Douglas Hurt has delved deeply into extensive manuscript collections, census data, and newspaper accounts for his study of that region's involvement with tobacco, hemp, and slavery.He concentrates his analysis in a carefully delineated seven-county area paralleling the mid-Missouri River where farmers relied on the labor of sla…
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
Journal Article From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880. By Joseph P. Reidy. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xvi, 360 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2061-X.) Get access Gavin Wright Gavin Wright Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1…
Frequency and chronological distribution of dental enamel hypoplasia in enslaved African Americans
The dentition of 27 enslaved African Americans from archaeological sites in Maryland and Virginia were examined. All 17 males and 7 of the 10 females in this study exhibited enamel hypoplastic defects indicative of systemic nutritional and disease stresses interfering with amelogenesis. Estimates of the ages of occurrence of these defects show that most occur between 1.5 and 4.5 years of age, 0.5–3.75 years later than historically documented wean…
An Anxious Pursuit
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