David N Gellman

Biographic Data

ID1108582
NAMEDavid N Gellman
GIVEN NAMESDavid N
FAMILY NAMEGellman
SIGNATUREGELLMAN D N
AFFILIATIONSDePauw University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York

    David N GellmanARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2026

  • Symbols of Freedom

    Open AccessDavid N GellmanARTICLEJournal of American History2026

  • The Most Absolute Abolition

    Open AccessDavid N Gellman, David GellmanARTICLEJournal of American History2024

    Journal Article The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 Get access The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861. By Jesse Olsavsky. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. xii, 279 pp. $45.00.) David Gellman David Gellman DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana Search for other works by thi…

  • William G. Thomas III. A Question of Freedom

    Open AccessDavid N GellmanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    Journal Article William G. Thomas III. A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. Get access William G. Thomas III. A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale ­University Press, 2020. Pp. 418. Cloth $35.00 David N. Gellman David N. Gellman DePauw University Email: [email protected] Search for other works …

  • Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood. Race over Party

    Open AccessDavid N GellmanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    After the Civil War, black Bostonians hoped that the Republican Party would reward African American support with a commitment to racial equality. Even before the end of Reconstruction, some black leaders in “the Hub” (a nickname for Boston originating in an 1858 Atlantic Monthly article) explored political alliances outside the Republican Party, hoping that a more independent stance would induce white politicians to compete for black support. By …

  • Wanda A. Hendricks. Fannie Barrier Williams

    David N GellmanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Fannie Barrier Williams traveled first-class on trains in the Jim Crow South. Light skin allowed this well-educated woman of color to surreptitiously claim the privilege her financial resources afforded. A commitment to racial advancement inspired Barrier Williams to write about this experience and openly traverse boundaries that white northerners also imposed. This Chicago-based reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries achie…

  • America Rising

    David N Gellman, David Gellman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

  • The Changing Face of Antislavery

    David N Gellman, Richard S Newman et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2002Cited by: 1

  • Pirates, Sugar, Debtors, and Slaves

    David N Gellman, D GellmanARTICLESlavery and Abolition2001

  • Race, the Public Sphere, and Abolition in Late Eighteenth-Century New York

    David N GellmanARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000

    Mungo, who lately arrived into this city from the United States of America, where he has been kept in slavery for upwards of twenty years, has given us a long and melancholy account of the treatment of the poor African in that land of cruelty, read the opening line of an excerpt from the imaginary Gazette of Guinea. This curious parody, printed in a 1795 edition of Mott and Hurtin 's NewYork Weekly Chronicle, provided a multilayered satire of pub…