Bruce E Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 704516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce E Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce E |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894
Journal Article Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 Get access Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894. By Kenneth H Wheeler. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021. 187 pp. Cloth, $14.95. Paper, $34.95.) Bruce E Baker Bruce E Baker Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism
Scholars have long known the Narrative of North Carolina writer and activist Moses Roper, first published in London in 1837. This article uses newly discovered sources and the multiple editions of the Narrative to reconstitute the biography of this first fugitive slave abolitionist to lecture in Ireland and Britain. It explores Roper’s interactions with British abolitionists, especially prominent Baptist ministers Francis A. Cox and Thomas Price.…
Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
Jeffrey S. Adler has produced as fine a quantitative study of urban life as can be imagined in Murder in New Orleans, which covers the period from 1920 to 1945. He was able to do this partly because of the thorough archives of police, court, and coroner records, supplemented by city directories, census schedules, newspapers, and other materials. These sources, and years of patient work, allowed Adler to assemble rich quantitative and qualitative …
The Revolution That Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches
The Revolution That Failed is a deeply researched monograph but an uneasy marriage of two forms: a detailed local study of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, and a broad argument about the meaning and historiography of Reconstruction. The result is a book that, while valuable, is uneven for several reasons. Natchitoches Parish was unusual, even in the unusual state of Louisiana, as a French settlement in a part of the state dominated by Anglo-Americ…
Discovering the South: One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s
Jennifer Ritterhouse's Discovering the South is a book about a book: A Southerner Discovers the South, published in 1938 by Jonathan Daniels, the editor of the Raleigh (NC) News and Observer and the son of Josephus Daniels. Since readers are figuratively stuck in the car with Daniels on his 1937 tour through the South described in the book, it is helpful that he is an interesting and pleasant character, definitely a product of the modern South ra…
Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels
Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels." American Nineteenth Century History, 18(2), pp. 180–181
Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class
Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class." Cultural and Social History, 14(1), pp. 128–129
Mark Wahlgren Summers. The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction is a book forty-six years in the making, and Mark Wahlgren Summers has paved the way with many previous important monographs about Reconstruction, particularly on railroads, corruption, and paranoia in this period. This book draws on all that research and more, and Summers is a master at weaving together many strands of arguments at once. There is a lot to be said in favor of this book, b…
Stephen V. Ash. A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year after the Civil War
It is surprising that no one has written a book on the 1866 Memphis Riot before, but no historian could be better prepared to do so than Stephen V. Ash, much of whose work centers on Tennessee during and immediately after the Civil War. The structure of the book is elegant and effective, almost theatrical. Ash sets the stage, introduces the characters, tells the story, and discusses the aftermath. Four groups of people came together in Memphis by…
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
"After Slavery" published on by University Press of Florida.
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History." Slavery & Abolition, 34(3), pp. 536–537
Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered
Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered, edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2009, xii, 233 pp., $30.00. ISBN 978-0-8078
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause." American Nineteenth Century History, 11(2), pp. 267–268
Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War
Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War SCOTT E. GILTNER Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 Pp. 231, $55.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8018 9023
To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865
Book Review| October 01 2010 To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865 To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865. By Arlin C. Migliazzo. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxi + 435. Maps, photos, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth). Bruce E. Baker Bruce…
Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation
by Jessica Adams, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007, xi, 240 pp., $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3104-5, $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5801-1 Wounds of Returning takes on a v
A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the crucial period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston's trademark image as America's Most Historic City. Eager to assert the national value of their regional cultural traditions and to situate Charleston as a bulwark against the chaos of modern Americ…
Lynch Law Reversed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the Debate Over Lynching in the 1880s
This study examines an 1887 lynching in Pickens County, South Carolina, in which a black mob lynched a white man for the rape and murder of a black girl. Two members of the mob, both African American, were eventually convicted, but a massive petition campaign led the Governor to pardon them. The study relies largely on coroner’s inquests for the murder victim and the lynching victim, court records, and newspaper articles. It suggests that the ano…
Stony the Road They Trod: Forced Migration of African Americans in the Slave South, 1790-1865
The contributing editors encourage readers to suggest representations of history in American public culture that might be reviewed. In addition to continuing coverage of museum exhibitions, they are interested in covering living history projects, historical pageants and reenactments, memorials, historic preservation projects, and virtual museums. Please contact: We would like to thank the American Association for State and Local History for provi…
Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers
Book Review| April 01 2000 Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers, Betty N. Smith. Bruce E. Baker Bruce E. Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (448): 229–230. https://doi.org/10.2307/541304 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce E. Baker; Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer amon…
The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad
Book Review| January 01 2000 The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad, Edward D. Ives. Bruce E. Baker Bruce E. Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (447): 104–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/541276 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce E. Baker…
The “Hoover Scare” in South Carolina, 1887: An Attempt to Organize Black Farm Labor
Thirty years ago, Herbert Gutman pointed out that without "detailed knowledge of the 'local world' inhabited by white and Negro workers" in the late nineteenth-century South, we cannot fully understand the early days of organized labor in the South. The CWA might have succeeded: In South Carolina it drew upon earlier models of organizing by black laborers and tapped into a pool of local leadership. Yet, the CWA failed, due partly to inopportune t…
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The “Hoover Scare” in South Carolina, 1887: An Attempt to Organize Black Farm Labor
Thirty years ago, Herbert Gutman pointed out that without "detailed knowledge of the 'local world' inhabited by white and Negro workers" in the late nineteenth-century South, we cannot fully understand the early days of organized labor in the South. The CWA might have succeeded: In South Carolina it drew upon earlier models of organizing by black laborers and tapped into a pool of local leadership. Yet, the CWA failed, due partly to inopportune t…
Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers
Book Review| April 01 2000 Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers, Betty N. Smith. Bruce E. Baker Bruce E. Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (448): 229–230. https://doi.org/10.2307/541304 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce E. Baker; Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer amon…
The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad
Book Review| January 01 2000 The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad, Edward D. Ives. Bruce E. Baker Bruce E. Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (447): 104–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/541276 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce E. Baker…
Stony the Road They Trod: Forced Migration of African Americans in the Slave South, 1790-1865
The contributing editors encourage readers to suggest representations of history in American public culture that might be reviewed. In addition to continuing coverage of museum exhibitions, they are interested in covering living history projects, historical pageants and reenactments, memorials, historic preservation projects, and virtual museums. Please contact: We would like to thank the American Association for State and Local History for provi…
Lynch Law Reversed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the Debate Over Lynching in the 1880s
This study examines an 1887 lynching in Pickens County, South Carolina, in which a black mob lynched a white man for the rape and murder of a black girl. Two members of the mob, both African American, were eventually convicted, but a massive petition campaign led the Governor to pardon them. The study relies largely on coroner’s inquests for the murder victim and the lynching victim, court records, and newspaper articles. It suggests that the ano…
A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the crucial period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston's trademark image as America's Most Historic City. Eager to assert the national value of their regional cultural traditions and to situate Charleston as a bulwark against the chaos of modern Americ…
Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation
by Jessica Adams, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007, xi, 240 pp., $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3104-5, $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5801-1 Wounds of Returning takes on a v
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause." American Nineteenth Century History, 11(2), pp. 267–268
Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War
Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War SCOTT E. GILTNER Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 Pp. 231, $55.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8018 9023
To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865
Book Review| October 01 2010 To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865 To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865. By Arlin C. Migliazzo. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxi + 435. Maps, photos, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth). Bruce E. Baker Bruce…
Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered
Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered, edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2009, xii, 233 pp., $30.00. ISBN 978-0-8078
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
"After Slavery" published on by University Press of Florida.
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History." Slavery & Abolition, 34(3), pp. 536–537
Stephen V. Ash. A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year after the Civil War
It is surprising that no one has written a book on the 1866 Memphis Riot before, but no historian could be better prepared to do so than Stephen V. Ash, much of whose work centers on Tennessee during and immediately after the Civil War. The structure of the book is elegant and effective, almost theatrical. Ash sets the stage, introduces the characters, tells the story, and discusses the aftermath. Four groups of people came together in Memphis by…
Mark Wahlgren Summers. The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction is a book forty-six years in the making, and Mark Wahlgren Summers has paved the way with many previous important monographs about Reconstruction, particularly on railroads, corruption, and paranoia in this period. This book draws on all that research and more, and Summers is a master at weaving together many strands of arguments at once. There is a lot to be said in favor of this book, b…
Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels
Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels." American Nineteenth Century History, 18(2), pp. 180–181
Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class
Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class." Cultural and Social History, 14(1), pp. 128–129
Discovering the South: One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s
Jennifer Ritterhouse's Discovering the South is a book about a book: A Southerner Discovers the South, published in 1938 by Jonathan Daniels, the editor of the Raleigh (NC) News and Observer and the son of Josephus Daniels. Since readers are figuratively stuck in the car with Daniels on his 1937 tour through the South described in the book, it is helpful that he is an interesting and pleasant character, definitely a product of the modern South ra…
The Revolution That Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches
The Revolution That Failed is a deeply researched monograph but an uneasy marriage of two forms: a detailed local study of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, and a broad argument about the meaning and historiography of Reconstruction. The result is a book that, while valuable, is uneven for several reasons. Natchitoches Parish was unusual, even in the unusual state of Louisiana, as a French settlement in a part of the state dominated by Anglo-Americ…
Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
Jeffrey S. Adler has produced as fine a quantitative study of urban life as can be imagined in Murder in New Orleans, which covers the period from 1920 to 1945. He was able to do this partly because of the thorough archives of police, court, and coroner records, supplemented by city directories, census schedules, newspapers, and other materials. These sources, and years of patient work, allowed Adler to assemble rich quantitative and qualitative …
I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism
Scholars have long known the Narrative of North Carolina writer and activist Moses Roper, first published in London in 1837. This article uses newly discovered sources and the multiple editions of the Narrative to reconstitute the biography of this first fugitive slave abolitionist to lecture in Ireland and Britain. It explores Roper’s interactions with British abolitionists, especially prominent Baptist ministers Francis A. Cox and Thomas Price.…
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894
Journal Article Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 Get access Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894. By Kenneth H Wheeler. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021. 187 pp. Cloth, $14.95. Paper, $34.95.) Bruce E Baker Bruce E Baker Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia
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