Jeff Strickland

Biographic Data

ID5693122
NAMEJeff Strickland
GIVEN NAMESJeff
FAMILY NAMEStrickland
SIGNATURESTRICKLAND J
AFFILIATIONSMontclair State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • All for Liberty

    Open AccessJeff StricklandBOOKAll for Liberty2021

    Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Nicholas risked his life and helped thirty-six fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, a…

  • Colin Edward Woodward. Marching Masters

    Jeff StricklandARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War offers a meticulous depiction of the role of slavery in the Confederate armed forces during the Civil War. Singlehandedly, this book effectively reveals that slavery comprised an essential component of white southerners’ identity even as the Confederate States of America experimented with something approaching unconventional warfare. At the same time, slavery shaped Co…

  • Teaching the History of Slavery in the United States with Interviews

    Jeff StricklandARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2014References: 2

    THIS ESSAY OFFERS a practical approach to teaching with the Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936–1938 collection available on the Library of Congress’s American Memory website. The essay begins with background on the Works Progress Administration (WPA) interviews and proceeds to a discussion of the historical debate about their reliability. The essay concludes with two instructional methods: an individual activ…

  • Freedom’s Prophet

    Jeff StricklandARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2009Cited by: 3

    Book Review| October 01 2009 Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, Richard S. Newman. Jeff Strickland Jeff Strickland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 29 (1): 101–103. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543584 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…

  • A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow

    Jeff StricklandARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2007Cited by: 1

    Book Review| October 01 2007 A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina’s George Washington Murray A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina’s George Washington Murray, John F. Marszalek. Jeff Strickland Jeff Strickland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 27 (1): 103–104. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543273 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…