Scholarly Books & Articles
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
This book "presents an insightful account of the struggles of black Americans from the beginning of the American Revolution until Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800." (Choice Reviews)
The following chapters focus more on Virginia:
Chapter 8: "Harry Washington's Atlantic Crossings"
Chapter 9: "A Suspicion Only: Racism in the Early Republic"
The Epilogue
Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
"Holton's study is an important revisionist appraisal of the factors from 1763 to 1776 that propelled Virginians to support the Revolutionary movement and independence. Issues involving merchants, slaves, Indians, debtors, and aspirations of the gentry and small landholders are examined. The most original part of the book is the treatment of small landholders and their stake in the coming Revolution, especially in relation to the recession of the early 1770s." (Choice Reviews)
Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia
"This exhaustive community study gleaned from court records of Albemarle County, Virginia, analyzes the region's fluid racial identities from the American Revolution to the Civil War." (Choice Reviews)
The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
An analysis of social and political conflict in Revolutionary Virginia through the lens of class struggle.
Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History
"Biographers from Henry Randall and James Parton (discussed by Andrew Burstein) to Sarah Randolph (Jan Lewis) and Fawn Brodie (Annette Gordon-Reed) to Dumas Malone (R. B. Bernstein) and Merrill Peterson (Francis Cogliano) have portrayed Jefferson as a supporter of individual rights and of majority or mob rule, as a slaveholder and proto-abolitionist, and as a nationalist and sectionalist." (Choice Reviews)
