Jeff Forret
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Forret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Forret |
| SIGNATURE | FORRET J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lamar University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Price They Paid
Price They Paid
Banking on Slavery
Journal Article Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. By Sharon Ann Murphy Get access Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States Sharon Ann Murphy (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 419 pp. $35.00). Jeff Forret Jeff Forret Lamar University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social Hist…
Williams' Gang
The Limits of Mastery
Existing scholarship describes early southern evangelical churches as racially radical institutions that, as the eighteenth century surrendered to the nineteenth, capitulated to slavery, implementing accommodations intended to make them more attractive to respectable, slaveholding churchgoers. This essay argues that that transition was never as complete as suggested. Based on a set of 65 Baptist church minutes from congregations located in 4 diff…
“Deaf & Dumb, Blind, Insane, or Idiotic”
“Deaf & Dumb, Blind, Insane, or Idiotic”:The Census, Slaves, and Disability in the Late Antebellum South Jeff Forret (bio) In a diary she kept during a stay on her husband’s coastal Georgia slaveholdings in the winter of 1838–1839, British actress Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble famously expressed contempt for the institution of slavery. Her condemnation of slaves’ appalling living conditions and the treatment they endured are well known. But she als…
The long emancipation
The long emancipation: the demise of slavery in the United States." Slavery & Abolition, 37(4), pp. 763–764
Family or Freedom
Emily West's Family or Freedom offers a straightforward examination of the rare phenomenon of voluntary enslavement in the late antebellum South. Fewer than 150 southern free blacks in a population of a quarter million ever attempted to surrender their liberty and join the ranks of the enslaved; but whereas Ira Berlin described voluntary bondage as a last resort of aged and impoverished free blacks, West identifies more varied, complicated, and o…
Slaves, Sex and Sin
Middle Georgia Baptist church minutes from the last seven decades of slavery are filled with accusations of enslaved members' adulterous behaviour. These allegations were closely related to the domestic slave trade and the migration of planters to the Old Southwest. Forced relocations severed slaves' marital ties and required Baptist churches to confront the contradiction between biblical prescriptions regarding the permanence of marriage and the…
Slavery, Civil War and Salvation
Slavery, Civil War and Salvation: African American Slaves and Christianity, 1830–1870, by Daniel L. Fountain, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2010, xi + 159 pp., US$36.00 (hardback)
Joining Places
the prominent scholars who have written noteworthy studies on the slave society of Mississippi's Natchez District.That region is also the focus of Anthony E. Kaye's important work, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South.Examining slave narratives, plantation journals, Southern Claims Commission records, and, most uniquely, the U.S. Pension Bureau files of Union veterans, Kaye introduces the idea of neighborhood as a new and signific…
Carry Me Back
"Conflict and the "Slave Community
IN 1826 WILLIAM HAMILTON, A SLAVEHOLDER IN PENDLETON DISTRICT, South Carolina, reported to the authorities his Negro Fellow Dave was violently Beat & abused. He identified Dave's attackers as Negro Fellows by the Name Ben & Aleck Belonging to John Adams & a Negro Boy Named Allen belonging to Archd Keaton. In another incident, two Spartanburg District slaves, Bob and Harry, the property Agnes Barnet, on the plantation the Widdow Mary Lewis in a tu…
Race Relations at the Margins
Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas
HISTORIANS HAVE PAID A GREAT DEAL OF ATTENTION OVER THE PAST TWO decades to the so-called slave, internal, or informal economy, studying slaves' independent activities as producers and consumers. In the rice-growing Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia, where the task system predominated, slaves who rapidly completed their day's assigned labor had the opportunity to use their free time toward the end of the day as they saw fit, within certain…
The long emancipation
The long emancipation: the demise of slavery in the United States." Slavery & Abolition, 37(4), pp. 763–764
Slaves, Sex and Sin
Middle Georgia Baptist church minutes from the last seven decades of slavery are filled with accusations of enslaved members' adulterous behaviour. These allegations were closely related to the domestic slave trade and the migration of planters to the Old Southwest. Forced relocations severed slaves' marital ties and required Baptist churches to confront the contradiction between biblical prescriptions regarding the permanence of marriage and the…
"Conflict and the "Slave Community
IN 1826 WILLIAM HAMILTON, A SLAVEHOLDER IN PENDLETON DISTRICT, South Carolina, reported to the authorities his Negro Fellow Dave was violently Beat & abused. He identified Dave's attackers as Negro Fellows by the Name Ben & Aleck Belonging to John Adams & a Negro Boy Named Allen belonging to Archd Keaton. In another incident, two Spartanburg District slaves, Bob and Harry, the property Agnes Barnet, on the plantation the Widdow Mary Lewis in a tu…
Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas
HISTORIANS HAVE PAID A GREAT DEAL OF ATTENTION OVER THE PAST TWO decades to the so-called slave, internal, or informal economy, studying slaves' independent activities as producers and consumers. In the rice-growing Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia, where the task system predominated, slaves who rapidly completed their day's assigned labor had the opportunity to use their free time toward the end of the day as they saw fit, within certain…
Race Relations at the Margins
Joining Places
the prominent scholars who have written noteworthy studies on the slave society of Mississippi's Natchez District.That region is also the focus of Anthony E. Kaye's important work, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South.Examining slave narratives, plantation journals, Southern Claims Commission records, and, most uniquely, the U.S. Pension Bureau files of Union veterans, Kaye introduces the idea of neighborhood as a new and signific…
Carry Me Back
"Conflict and the "Slave Community
IN 1826 WILLIAM HAMILTON, A SLAVEHOLDER IN PENDLETON DISTRICT, South Carolina, reported to the authorities his Negro Fellow Dave was violently Beat & abused. He identified Dave's attackers as Negro Fellows by the Name Ben & Aleck Belonging to John Adams & a Negro Boy Named Allen belonging to Archd Keaton. In another incident, two Spartanburg District slaves, Bob and Harry, the property Agnes Barnet, on the plantation the Widdow Mary Lewis in a tu…
Slaves, Sex and Sin
Middle Georgia Baptist church minutes from the last seven decades of slavery are filled with accusations of enslaved members' adulterous behaviour. These allegations were closely related to the domestic slave trade and the migration of planters to the Old Southwest. Forced relocations severed slaves' marital ties and required Baptist churches to confront the contradiction between biblical prescriptions regarding the permanence of marriage and the…
Slavery, Civil War and Salvation
Slavery, Civil War and Salvation: African American Slaves and Christianity, 1830–1870, by Daniel L. Fountain, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2010, xi + 159 pp., US$36.00 (hardback)
Family or Freedom
Emily West's Family or Freedom offers a straightforward examination of the rare phenomenon of voluntary enslavement in the late antebellum South. Fewer than 150 southern free blacks in a population of a quarter million ever attempted to surrender their liberty and join the ranks of the enslaved; but whereas Ira Berlin described voluntary bondage as a last resort of aged and impoverished free blacks, West identifies more varied, complicated, and o…
“Deaf & Dumb, Blind, Insane, or Idiotic”
“Deaf & Dumb, Blind, Insane, or Idiotic”:The Census, Slaves, and Disability in the Late Antebellum South Jeff Forret (bio) In a diary she kept during a stay on her husband’s coastal Georgia slaveholdings in the winter of 1838–1839, British actress Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble famously expressed contempt for the institution of slavery. Her condemnation of slaves’ appalling living conditions and the treatment they endured are well known. But she als…
The long emancipation
The long emancipation: the demise of slavery in the United States." Slavery & Abolition, 37(4), pp. 763–764
The Limits of Mastery
Existing scholarship describes early southern evangelical churches as racially radical institutions that, as the eighteenth century surrendered to the nineteenth, capitulated to slavery, implementing accommodations intended to make them more attractive to respectable, slaveholding churchgoers. This essay argues that that transition was never as complete as suggested. Based on a set of 65 Baptist church minutes from congregations located in 4 diff…
Williams' Gang
The Price They Paid
Price They Paid
Banking on Slavery
Journal Article Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. By Sharon Ann Murphy Get access Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States Sharon Ann Murphy (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 419 pp. $35.00). Jeff Forret Jeff Forret Lamar University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social Hist…
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