<style> p {margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;} </style> <table border=0 width=100%% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 align=center> <tr> <td valign=top style='padding:8pt;'><font size=2><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/31873.html">http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/31873.html</a><br><br><h2 class="blogtitle"><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/14.html">Historians in the News</a></h2><h2 class="posttitle">Eugene Genovese: An Idaho pastor accused of racism claims Genovese backs his view of slavery</h2><p><span class="source">Source:</span> <i>Email to HNN by William L. Ramsey, assistant professor of history at the University of Idaho </i> (11-15-06)</p>Fundamentalist<br>Pastor Douglas Wilson of Moscow, Idaho, may have fallen short in his<br>first attempt to overturn the last fifty years of academic scholarship<br>on slavery, which he has described variously as “abolitionist<br>propaganda” and “civil rights propaganda,” but he intends to win the<br>war. A supportive comment from !
Eugene Genovese on the back cover of<br>Wilson’s new self-published book on slavery, Black and Tan, appears to<br>be the center- piece of the new battle plan. <br><br><br><br>The “blurb” has been doing yeomen’s duty in fundamentalist and<br>neo-Confederate circles for the past year, but it saw its first service<br>in mainstream public dialogue recently when Pastor Wilson published a<br>guest editorial in the November 5 issue of the Moscow-Pullman Daily<br>News. Angered that historians from the University of Idaho, myself<br>included, remained critical of his happy portrait of southern slavery,<br>Wilson pointed out that his work has now received a positive “academic<br>response.” Eugene Genovese, he claimed, “one of America’s first-rate<br>historians,” had concluded that Wilson “has a strong grasp of the<br>essentials of slavery.” <br><br><br><br>Concerned that the nationwide curriculum might now be obsolete, I<br>visited the Daily News offices and req!
uested a follow-up investigation.<br>Does Genovese also endorse, for i
nstance, the original pro-slavery<br>pamphlet, Southern Slavery, As It Was, which I myself dismembered in a<br>review that can be found <a href="http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=633361">here</a>?<br>Or has Genovese merely endorsed the watered down version that he edited<br>in order to get the Confederate partisans up to speed, which I<br>dismembered <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/23113.html">here</a>? The<br>confusion is genuine, since Wilson’s pledge that he has discontinued<br>publication of Southern Slavery, As It Was, is only correct with<br>respect to his own garage. The pamphlet continues to be published<br>verbatim in its entirety by Bluebonnet Press in the textbook, The War<br>Between the States, which is currently being marketed on the front page<br>of Wilson’s website to unsuspecting home-schooled children. <br><br><br><br>Will the Daily News follow up the story? Will their tell-all interview<br>with Eugene Genovese sink our national historiography? Will he refuse!
<br>to answer his phone? <br><br><br></font></td></tr>
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<br><br><br><font color=#000000 style='font-size: 9pt;'>Juanita Flores
<br>Advocate for the Truth from Jesus</font><br/>
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