William D Piersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 300652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William D Piersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | William D |
| FAMILY NAME | Piersen |
| SIGNATURE | PIERSEN W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fisk University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
White Cannibals, Black Martyrs: Fear, Depression, And Religious Faith As Causes Of Suicide Among New Slaves
African slaves composed the largest immigrant group arriving in the New World prior to the American Revolution, and the largest non-English migration to the North American Continent during the same years. The horrors of forced migration into American slavery were increased by the miasma of misunderstanding and myth which shrouded the ultimate destiny of the slave emigrants. From the seventeenth century onward the folk beliefs of West and Central …
From Africa to America: African American History from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526-1790
From Africa to America: African American History from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526-1790
Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South
Burdys Bend Unlovable Land Soul Searching Miss Pearls Purse Clydes Dilemma Holding Hands Mothers Day Election Day
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Drawing on a vast wealth of evidence - folktales, oral histories, religious rituals, and music - this book explores the pervasive if often unacknowledged influence of African traditions on American life. The result is a bold reinterpretation of American history that disrupts conventional assumptions and turns racial stereotypes inside out. William D. Piersen begins by examining a series of African and African-American oral narratives that interpr…
The Promising Years, 1750-1830: The Emergence of Black Labor and Business
Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Drawing on a vast wealth of evidence - folktales, oral histories, religious rituals, and music - this book explores the pervasive if often unacknowledged influence of African traditions on American life. The result is a bold reinterpretation of American history that disrupts conventional assumptions and turns racial stereotypes inside out. William D. Piersen begins by examining a series of African and African-American oral narratives that interpr…
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Journal Article Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage. By William D. Piersen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. xvi, 264 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87023-854-X. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87023-859-0.) Get access Shane White Shane White University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1276–1277, https:…
Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South
Journal Article Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South. Ed. by Ted Ownby. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. xx, 241 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87805-620-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-87805-621-1.) Get access William D. Piersen William D. Piersen Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 199…
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
The Promising Years, 1750-1830: The Emergence of Black Labor and Business
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810
Journal Article Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770–1810. By Shane White. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xxx + 278 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1245-2.) Get access Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770–1810. By White Shane. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xxx + 278 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1245-2.) William D. Piersen William D. Piersen Fisk University Search for ot…
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Journal Article Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. By William D. Piersen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. xii + 237 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $11.95.) Get access James Oliver Horton James Oliver Horton George Washington University and Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 7…
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
This book examines the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England. Piersen concerns himself not with the machinery of slave control or the political and social disabilities of bondage, but with the processes of cultural change and creation from the black bondsman's point of view. What was it like to be an African immigrant in colonial New England? What attitudes and assumptions underlay the Afro-American response…
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Revisiting Blassingame's The Slave Community: The Scholars Respond
Journal Article Revisiting Blassingame's The Slave Community: The Scholars Respond. Ed. by Al-Tony Gilmore. (Westport: Greenwood, 1978. xvi + 206 pp. Notes and index. $15.95.) Collection of essays. Get access William D. Piersen William D. Piersen Fisk University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894724 Publish…
White Cannibals, Black Martyrs: Fear, Depression, and Religious Faith as Causes of Suicide Among New Slaves
An African Background for American Negro Folktales
MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS first attacked what he called myth of the Negro Past in 1941 ;1 since then many of his assertions about the Negro's African heritage have been accepted as useful in understanding the American Negro. Folklore, however, has not been moved to credit American Negro folktales to an African background. This is most notably evident in the work of Richard M. Dorson, whose wide acquaintance with both American and European folklore l…
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
This book examines the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England. Piersen concerns himself not with the machinery of slave control or the political and social disabilities of bondage, but with the processes of cultural change and creation from the black bondsman's point of view. What was it like to be an African immigrant in colonial New England? What attitudes and assumptions underlay the Afro-American response…
White Cannibals, Black Martyrs: Fear, Depression, and Religious Faith as Causes of Suicide Among New Slaves
Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South
Journal Article Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South. Ed. by Ted Ownby. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. xx, 241 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87805-620-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-87805-621-1.) Get access William D. Piersen William D. Piersen Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 199…
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Journal Article Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. By William D. Piersen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. xii + 237 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $11.95.) Get access James Oliver Horton James Oliver Horton George Washington University and Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 7…
An African Background for American Negro Folktales
MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS first attacked what he called myth of the Negro Past in 1941 ;1 since then many of his assertions about the Negro's African heritage have been accepted as useful in understanding the American Negro. Folklore, however, has not been moved to credit American Negro folktales to an African background. This is most notably evident in the work of Richard M. Dorson, whose wide acquaintance with both American and European folklore l…
White Cannibals, Black Martyrs: Fear, Depression, and Religious Faith as Causes of Suicide Among New Slaves
Revisiting Blassingame's The Slave Community: The Scholars Respond
Journal Article Revisiting Blassingame's The Slave Community: The Scholars Respond. Ed. by Al-Tony Gilmore. (Westport: Greenwood, 1978. xvi + 206 pp. Notes and index. $15.95.) Collection of essays. Get access William D. Piersen William D. Piersen Fisk University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894724 Publish…
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Journal Article Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. By William D. Piersen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. xii + 237 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $11.95.) Get access James Oliver Horton James Oliver Horton George Washington University and Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 7…
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
This book examines the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England. Piersen concerns himself not with the machinery of slave control or the political and social disabilities of bondage, but with the processes of cultural change and creation from the black bondsman's point of view. What was it like to be an African immigrant in colonial New England? What attitudes and assumptions underlay the Afro-American response…
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810
Journal Article Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770–1810. By Shane White. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xxx + 278 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1245-2.) Get access Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770–1810. By White Shane. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xxx + 278 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1245-2.) William D. Piersen William D. Piersen Fisk University Search for ot…
The Promising Years, 1750-1830: The Emergence of Black Labor and Business
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Drawing on a vast wealth of evidence - folktales, oral histories, religious rituals, and music - this book explores the pervasive if often unacknowledged influence of African traditions on American life. The result is a bold reinterpretation of American history that disrupts conventional assumptions and turns racial stereotypes inside out. William D. Piersen begins by examining a series of African and African-American oral narratives that interpr…
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Journal Article Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage. By William D. Piersen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. xvi, 264 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87023-854-X. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87023-859-0.) Get access Shane White Shane White University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1276–1277, https:…
Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South
Journal Article Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South. Ed. by Ted Ownby. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. xx, 241 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87805-620-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-87805-621-1.) Get access William D. Piersen William D. Piersen Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 199…
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
Drawing on a vast wealth of evidence - folktales, oral histories, religious rituals, and music - this book explores the pervasive if often unacknowledged influence of African traditions on American life. The result is a bold reinterpretation of American history that disrupts conventional assumptions and turns racial stereotypes inside out. William D. Piersen begins by examining a series of African and African-American oral narratives that interpr…
The Promising Years, 1750-1830: The Emergence of Black Labor and Business
Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South
Burdys Bend Unlovable Land Soul Searching Miss Pearls Purse Clydes Dilemma Holding Hands Mothers Day Election Day
From Africa to America: African American History from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526-1790
From Africa to America: African American History from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526-1790
White Cannibals, Black Martyrs: Fear, Depression, And Religious Faith As Causes Of Suicide Among New Slaves
African slaves composed the largest immigrant group arriving in the New World prior to the American Revolution, and the largest non-English migration to the North American Continent during the same years. The horrors of forced migration into American slavery were increased by the miasma of misunderstanding and myth which shrouded the ultimate destiny of the slave emigrants. From the seventeenth century onward the folk beliefs of West and Central …
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