In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History

by Eugene D. Genovese

Book by Genovese, Eugene D.

Genres: History, American History

435 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1971

About the author

Eugene Dominic Genovese was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize. He later abandoned the Left and Marxism, and embraced traditionalist conservatism.