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Baptist, Edward E.
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- Associate Professor, History (HIST), College of Arts and Sciences
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Research
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- I focus on the history of the 19th-century United States, and in particular on the history of the enslavement of African Americans in the South. The expansion of slavery in the United States between the writing of the Constitution in 1787 and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 had enormous consequences for all Americans. Indeed, the expansion shaped many elements of the modern world that we now live in, both inside and outside the borders of the United States. I am writing a book about that process: the experience of the slave trades and forced migrations that drove expansion, the systems of labor that emerged, the economic and political and cultural consequences for women and men and children.
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Publications
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- Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 2002
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- The Slave Labor Camps of Antebellum Florida and the Pushing System. Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. 31-63. 2009
- Introduction: A History of the History of Slavery in the Americas 2006
- 'Stol’ An’ Fetched Here’: Enslaved Migration: Ex-Slave Narratives, and Vernacular History. New Studies in the History of American Slavery. 243-274. 2006
- The Absent Subject: African-American Masculinity and Forced Migration to the Antebellum Plantation Frontier. Southern Manhood : Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South. 2004
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Books
- [Edited with Stephanie Camp, University of Washington] New Studies in American Slavery, under contract to University of Georgia Press. Anticipated publication in spring 2005.
- Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
- “’Stol’ An’ Fetched Here’: Enslaved Migration: Ex Slave Narratives, and Vernacular History,” in New Studies in American Slavery [see above.]
- “The Absent Subject: African-American Masculinity and Forced Migration to the Antebellum Plantation Frontier,” in Southern Masculinities, Craig T. Friend and Lorri Glover, eds., forthcoming from University of Georgia Press, 2004.
- “Cuffy,’ ‘Fancy Maids,’ and ‘One-Eyed Men’: Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States,” (reprint) in Walter Johnson, ed., Internal Passages: The Domestic Slave Trade in the United States, forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2004.
- “Land Speculation” and “Slavery,” The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., (Santa Barbara and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2002), 179-180 and 317-319.
- “Cuffy,’ ‘Fancy Maids,’ and ‘One-Eyed Men’: Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States,” American Historical Review CVI (December 2001,) 1619-1650.
- “’My Mind Is To Drown You and Leave You Behind’: ‘Omie Wise,’ Intimate Violence, and Masculinity,” in Crossing the Threshold: Domestic Violence in Early America, Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy, eds. (New York and London, 1999), 94-110.
- “Accidental Ethnography in an Antebellum Southern Newspaper: Snell’s Homecoming Festival.” Journal of American History LXXXIV (March 1998), 1355-1383.
- “Slavery in Florida,” Macmillan Encyclopedia of Slavery, vol. 1, (New York, 1998), 334-35.
- “John Murrell,” The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, vol. 2 (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, 1997), 448.
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Teaching
teaching overview
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- Causes of the American Civil War, 1815-1860
- Undergraduate Seminar: History of American South
- American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877
- History of Battle
teaching activities
- AMST-1540: American Capitalism - Spring 2013
- AMST-2001: The First American University - Spring 2013
- ENGL-2999: The First American University - Spring 2013
- HIST-1540: American Capitalism - Spring 2013
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2013
- HIST-2003: Becker House Cafe - Spring 2013
- HIST-2004: Becker House in Service - Spring 2013
- HIST-2005: The First American University - Spring 2013
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2013
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2013
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Fall 2012
- HIST-2003: Becker House Cafe - Fall 2012
- HIST-2004: Becker House in Service - Fall 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Fall 2012
- HIST-4820: History of Slavery - Fall 2012
- HIST-6824: History of Slavery - Fall 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2012
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2012
- AMST-2292: American Capitalism - Spring 2012
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-2003: Becker House Cafe - Spring 2012
- HIST-2004: Becker House in Service - Spring 2012
- HIST-2292: American Capitalism - Spring 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2012
- AMST-3310: Causes of the American Civil War, 1815-1860 - Fall 2011
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-2003: Becker House Cafe - Fall 2011
- HIST-2004: Becker House in Service - Fall 2011
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Fall 2011
- HIST-3310: Causes of the American Civil War, 1815-1860 - Fall 2011
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
Service
current professional activities
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- Society for the Humanities Faculty Felllow 2008/2009
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1997
educational background
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- B.S.F.S. Georgetown University, 1992
awards and honors
- Rembert Patrick Award for the Best Book in Florida History, 2002
- Southern Studies Fellowship, University of North Carolina Libraries, 2002
- Mellon Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2001
- American Antiquarian Society Fellowship, 2001
- Short-term Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 2000
- Orovitz Research Award, 2000
- General Research Support Award, 2000
- Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2000
- John Hope Franklin Center Research Award, William R. Perkins Library, 2000
- NEH Fellowship for University Teachers and Scholars, 2000
- Orovitz Research Award, 1999
- General Research Support Award, 1999
- J. Franklin Jameson Fellow, 1998
- Annenberg Research Awards, 1997
- Albert J. Beveridge Travel Grant, 1997
- Mellon Final-Year Dissertation Fellowship, 1996
- Annenberg Research Awards, 1996