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Stanley Elkins and the Slavery Debate

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Hannah Noelle

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Bibliography

The Debate over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and His Critics (1971) Ann J. Lane

  • Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. 2d ed. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

  • Kenny, Stephen. "Stanley Elkins/Elkins Thesis." Academia.edu. Accessed December 3, 2014. http://www.academia.edu/824609/Stanley_Elkins_Elkins_thesis.

  • Lane, Ann J. The Debate over Slavery; Stanley Elkins and His Critics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.

Stanley Elkin/Elkin Thesis (2008) Stephen C. Kenny

  • Discusses the issues with Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life
  • Focusing on the examination of slavery into new disciplines
  • Forgets to address Elkins' view of slavery as a closed society
  • Explanation for appeals/attacks of theories set by previous work of Elkin
  • Introduces structure for social scientific discourse of 1950's against Elkin's theories of the Holocaust
  • Introduces support of Elkin's work by Malcolm X and other black militant leaders
  • Discusses development of black nationalist phase in civil rights movement

"Sambo" Model

  • infantile, docile creatures incapable of anything except passive acceptance--as the psychological result of the African slave’s cultural and physical deprivation.
  • Compares social/psychological impacts of Nazi concentration camps on victims

Stanley Elkin and the Slavery Debate

Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959)

Stanley Elkins

  • Based on doctoral dissertation at Columbia
  • Theoretically innovative/influential
  • Outdated today/precedence is lost
  • Two Crucial Arguments:
  • American abolitionists undersold effectiveness
  • Slavery experience was infantilizing to slaves psychological state of mind
  • Boston, Mass. April 27, 1925
  • Enlisted in the US Army in 1943 (fought in Italy in WWII)
  • Attended Harvard University on the G.I. Bill
  • Columbia University for M.A. in American History (1951)
  • Ph.D. (1958)

Hannah Caton

Education/Career

  • Studies under Richard Hofstadter at Columbia
  • Best known for his comparison of slavery to Nazi concentration camps
  • Known for collaborating on works of the Early Republic with Eric McKitrick
  • Teaches at University of Chicago as assistant professor (1955-1960)
  • Offered faculty position at Smith College (1960)
  • Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emeritus of History
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