William L. Van Deburg

Education

Career

Selected works

Articles

• "Ulrich B. Phillips: Progress and the Conservative Historian," Georgia Historical Quarterly 55 : 406-416 reprinted in Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: A Southern Historian and His Critics, ed. John David Smith and John C. Inscoe.
• "Frederick Douglass: Maryland Slave to Religious Liberal," Maryland Historical Magazine 69 : 27-43 reprinted in By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism, ed. Anthony B. Pinn.
• "William Lloyd Garrison and the Pro-Slavery 'Priesthood'," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 43 : 224-237.
• "Slave Drivers and Slave Narratives: A New Look at the 'Dehumanized Elite'," Historian 35 : 717-732.
• "Elite Slave Behavior During the Civil War: Black Drivers and Foremen in Historiographical Perspective," Southern Studies 16 : 253-269.
• "The Development of Black Historical Studies in American Higher Education," Canadian Review of American Studies 11 : 175-191.
• "No Mere Mortals: Black Slaves and Black Power in American Literature, 1967-80," South Atlantic Quarterly 83 : 297-311.
• "The Battleground of Historical Memory: Creating Alternative Culture Heroes in Postbellum America," Journal of Popular Culture 20 : 49-62.
• "Villains, Demons, and Social Bandits: White Fear of the Black Cultural Revolution," in Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle, ed. Brian Ward.

  Books

• The Slave Drivers: Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South.
• Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture.
• New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975.
• Black Camelot: African-American Culture Heroes in Their Times, 1960-1980.
• Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life

  Edited Collections

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• African American Nationalism in the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience series.

  Personal life