Soul by Soul (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Johnson
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: c. 1808-1865
- Setting: Southern United States, especially the New Orleans slave markets
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Locales: South (U.S.), New Orleans, LA
Soul by Soul is an impressive work of scholarship, winner of Harvard University Press’s Thomas J. Wilson Prize, awarded to the best first book accepted by the press each year. Even though it is his first book, it is surprising to see that Walter Johnson, an assistant professor of history at New York University, wrote it while in only his early thirties. His research for the work is so voluminous and authoritative that one might imagine him as a senior scholar at the top of his field, but obviously he has many years as a leading scholar ahead of him.
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