Stanley L. Engerman

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1. Eugene D. Genovese

   Author of Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South, The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation

2. John Hope Franklin

   Author of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (2 Vols. in 1), Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation, The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (The Paul Anthony Brick Lectures)

3. C. Vann Woodward

   Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

4. Eric Foner

   Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

5. Ira Berlin

   Author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

6. Robert William Fogel

   Author of Without consent or contract : the rise and fall of American slavery

7. David Brion Davis

   Author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

8. Kenneth M. Stampp

   Author of The Peculiar Institution

9. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

   Author of American Negro Slavery

10. Winthrop D. Jordan

    Author of White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

11. Stanley M. Elkins

    Author of Slavery; a Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

12. Peter Novick

    Author of That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession

13. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

    Author of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

14. Peter H. Wood

    Author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

15. Herbert G. Gutman

    Author of The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

16. John W. Blassingame

    Author of The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South

17. James Oakes

    Author of The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

18. Leon F. Litwack

    Author of North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860

19. William W. Freehling

    Author of The Road to Disunion: The Secessionists at Bay 1776-1854

20. Philip D. Morgan

    Author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry