J Brent Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 5690335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Brent Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina Beaufort |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)
Reviewed by: The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky J. Brent Morris (bio) 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. Pp. 304. Cloth, $45.00.) Radical abolitionist James Redpath published a remarkable book in 18…
Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina, 1526-2008
Alfred L. Brophy. University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War
In the spring of 1851, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a passionate address in which he sharply criticized the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, noting that such laws unfortunately reflected the retrograde customs of society rather than the potential of expanded democracy in the future. “What is the use of courts,” he asked, “if judges only quote authorities, and no judge exerts original jurisdiction, or recurs to first principles?” Emerson recommended civil …
Judith Wellman. Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York
In the late 1960s, as much of America witnessed powerful grassroots movements for equality and justice, the little known history of more than a hundred years earlier, that of a free black community that fought for the same ideals, was slowly coming to light in Brooklyn, New York. A small community effort made up of students, Boy Scouts, anthropologists, historians, and local citizens won permission from the New York Housing Authority and a $500 a…
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America
As the first college to admit men and women of all races, and with a faculty and community comprised of outspoken abolitionists, Oberlin supported a cadre of activist missionaries devoted to emancipation, even if that was through unconventional methods or via an abandonment of strict ideological consistency. Their philosophy was a colorblind composite of various schools of anti-slavery thought aimed at supporting the best hope of success. This bo…
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
Reviewed by: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz J. Brent Morris Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War. Tony Horwitz. New York: Picador, 2012. ISBN 978-0-312-42926-3, 384 pp., paper, $18.00. Midway through Tony Horwitz’s 1998 bestseller Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, the author paid a brief visit to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the…
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
Reviewed by: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz J. Brent Morris Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War. Tony Horwitz. New York: Picador, 2012. ISBN 978-0-312-42926-3, 384 pp., paper, $18.00. Midway through Tony Horwitz’s 1998 bestseller Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, the author paid a brief visit to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the…
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America
As the first college to admit men and women of all races, and with a faculty and community comprised of outspoken abolitionists, Oberlin supported a cadre of activist missionaries devoted to emancipation, even if that was through unconventional methods or via an abandonment of strict ideological consistency. Their philosophy was a colorblind composite of various schools of anti-slavery thought aimed at supporting the best hope of success. This bo…
Judith Wellman. Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York
In the late 1960s, as much of America witnessed powerful grassroots movements for equality and justice, the little known history of more than a hundred years earlier, that of a free black community that fought for the same ideals, was slowly coming to light in Brooklyn, New York. A small community effort made up of students, Boy Scouts, anthropologists, historians, and local citizens won permission from the New York Housing Authority and a $500 a…
Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina, 1526-2008
Alfred L. Brophy. University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War
In the spring of 1851, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a passionate address in which he sharply criticized the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, noting that such laws unfortunately reflected the retrograde customs of society rather than the potential of expanded democracy in the future. “What is the use of courts,” he asked, “if judges only quote authorities, and no judge exerts original jurisdiction, or recurs to first principles?” Emerson recommended civil …
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)
Reviewed by: The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky J. Brent Morris (bio) 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. Pp. 304. Cloth, $45.00.) Radical abolitionist James Redpath published a remarkable book in 18…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Abolitionism (2 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)