Eric Herschthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 2344752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Herschthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Herschthal |
| SIGNATURE | HERSCHTHAL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah, Utah, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Plantation Carbon Complex
In recent years, scholars working across the humanities and social sciences have suggested that agricultural land use emissions from early modern enslaved labor plantations may have played an important role in the origins of anthropogenic, or human-induced, climate change. Yet historians of slavery and the early modern Atlantic world have been slow to engage with this argument. Focusing on the major enslaved-grown export commodities of the coloni…
Standard-Bearers of Equality
Reviewed by: Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement by Paul J. Polgar Eric Herschthal (bio) Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement. By Paul J. Polgar. (Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 342. Cloth, $39.95.) For the past several decades, many scholars have portrayed the original abolitionist societies of the re…
Slavery, Health, and Healing Now
The scholarship on slavery, health, and healing has dramatically transformed over the past two decades. This essay synthesizes several themes within the thriving subfield, highlighting its relevance to historians of medicine and science working in adjacent fields, and suggesting new directions forward. The recent scholarship builds on research begun in the 1970s, but where earlier scholarship relied on quantitative methods and retrospective diagn…
The Science of Abolition
Yuletide in Dixie
Reviewed by: Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory by Robert E. May Eric Herschthal (bio) Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory. By Robert E. May. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Pp. 352. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $27.95.) One of the many stories white southerners liked to tell themselves about slavery—and that some still tell themselves—was that Christmas was the one time of year belove…
What kind of abolitionist was Benjamin Banneker? Reluctant activism and the intellectual lives of early black Americans
In recent years, Benjamin Banneker, the early American republic’s most celebrated black scientific thinker, has been routinely cast as a radical black abolitionist, while his intellectual life has largely been neglected. Drawing on the manuscripts of Banneker and his white antislavery allies, this article argues that Banneker was hardly a radical: he was a reluctant abolitionist, aiding the white-controlled movement in part so he could gain scien…
Antislavery Science in the Early Republic
The role science played in the early abolitionist movement has been almost entirely overlooked. This article demonstrates the ways Benjamin Rush, one of the early republic’s most prominent physicians and leading abolitionists, deployed scientific and medical ideas to advance his vision of a slave-free, white yeoman republic. In 1792 Rush famously argued that blackness was itself the symptom of a disease that slavery only made worse: if slaves wer…
Slavery, Health, and Healing Now
The scholarship on slavery, health, and healing has dramatically transformed over the past two decades. This essay synthesizes several themes within the thriving subfield, highlighting its relevance to historians of medicine and science working in adjacent fields, and suggesting new directions forward. The recent scholarship builds on research begun in the 1970s, but where earlier scholarship relied on quantitative methods and retrospective diagn…
Antislavery Science in the Early Republic
The role science played in the early abolitionist movement has been almost entirely overlooked. This article demonstrates the ways Benjamin Rush, one of the early republic’s most prominent physicians and leading abolitionists, deployed scientific and medical ideas to advance his vision of a slave-free, white yeoman republic. In 1792 Rush famously argued that blackness was itself the symptom of a disease that slavery only made worse: if slaves wer…
The Science of Abolition
Yuletide in Dixie
Reviewed by: Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory by Robert E. May Eric Herschthal (bio) Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory. By Robert E. May. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Pp. 352. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $27.95.) One of the many stories white southerners liked to tell themselves about slavery—and that some still tell themselves—was that Christmas was the one time of year belove…
What kind of abolitionist was Benjamin Banneker? Reluctant activism and the intellectual lives of early black Americans
In recent years, Benjamin Banneker, the early American republic’s most celebrated black scientific thinker, has been routinely cast as a radical black abolitionist, while his intellectual life has largely been neglected. Drawing on the manuscripts of Banneker and his white antislavery allies, this article argues that Banneker was hardly a radical: he was a reluctant abolitionist, aiding the white-controlled movement in part so he could gain scien…
Standard-Bearers of Equality
Reviewed by: Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement by Paul J. Polgar Eric Herschthal (bio) Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement. By Paul J. Polgar. (Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 342. Cloth, $39.95.) For the past several decades, many scholars have portrayed the original abolitionist societies of the re…
Slavery, Health, and Healing Now
The scholarship on slavery, health, and healing has dramatically transformed over the past two decades. This essay synthesizes several themes within the thriving subfield, highlighting its relevance to historians of medicine and science working in adjacent fields, and suggesting new directions forward. The recent scholarship builds on research begun in the 1970s, but where earlier scholarship relied on quantitative methods and retrospective diagn…
The Plantation Carbon Complex
In recent years, scholars working across the humanities and social sciences have suggested that agricultural land use emissions from early modern enslaved labor plantations may have played an important role in the origins of anthropogenic, or human-induced, climate change. Yet historians of slavery and the early modern Atlantic world have been slow to engage with this argument. Focusing on the major enslaved-grown export commodities of the coloni…
History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American History and Culture (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works)