Title

The ‘Negro Fever,’ the South, and the Ignominious Effort to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade

Authors

Walter Johnson, Howard University
Deirdre Cooper-Owens, University of Mississippi

Streaming Media

Files

Description

Walter Johnson, the Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African-American studies at Harvard University, speaks at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in Nutt Auditorium. His lecture, “The ‘Negro Fever,’ the South, and the Ignominious Effort to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade,” focuses on the challenges facing Mississippi Valley slaveholders in the late 1850s and the way many hoped to solve them through a global projection of slaveholding power, which was through pro-slavery imperialism.

Publication Date

9-18-2013

Relational Format

presentation

Comments

In this recording, Johnson is interviewed by Deirdre Cooper-Owens, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.

Recommended Citation

Johnson, Walter and Cooper-Owens, Deirdre, "The ‘Negro Fever,’ the South, and the Ignominious Effort to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade" (2013). Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History. 10.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/gilder-jordan/10