Ulrich B. Phillips
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (November 4, 1877 – January 21, 1934) was an American historian who largely defined the field of the social and economic studies of the history of the Antebellum South and slavery in the U.S. Phillips concentrated on the large plantations that dominated the Southern economy, and he did not investigate the numerous small farmers who held few slaves. He concluded that plantation slavery produced great wealth, but was a dead end, economically, that left the South bypassed by the industrial revolution underway in the North.Phillips concluded that plantation slavery was not very profitable, had about reached its geographical limits in 1860, and would probably have faded away without the American Civil War, which he considered a needless conflict. He praised the entrepreneurship of plantation owners and denied they were brutal. Phillips argued that they provided adequate food, clothing, housing, medical care and training in modern technology—that they formed a "school" which helped "civilize" the slaves. He admitted the failure was that no one graduated from this school.
Phillips systematically hunted down and revealed plantation records and unused manuscript sources. An example of pioneering comparative work was "A Jamaica Slave Plantation" (1914). His methods and use of sources shaped the research agenda of most succeeding scholars, even those who disagreed with his favorable treatment of the masters. After the civil rights movement of the 1960s historians turned their focus away from his emphasis on the material well-being of the slaves to the slaves' own cultural constructs and efforts to achieve freedom.
By turning away from the political debates about slavery that divided North and South, Phillips made the economics and social structure of slavery the main theme in 20th century scholarship. Together with his highly eloquent writing style, his new approach made him the most influential historian of the antebellum south. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
New York, London, D. Appleton-Century company, 1933
New York, London, D. Appleton-Century company, 1933
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
n. p., 1928
n. p., 1928
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
New York : Columbia University Press, 1908
New York : Columbia University Press, 1908
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 1970
New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 1970
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
New York : The Macmillan company, 1913
New York : The Macmillan company, 1913
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
Richmond, Va. : The Southern Publication Society, 1909
Richmond, Va. : The Southern Publication Society, 1909
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
New York : Macmillan, 1913
New York : Macmillan, 1913
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
New York : Columbia University Press, 1908
New York : Columbia University Press, 1908
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
Gloucester, Mass. : P. Smith, 1958
Gloucester, Mass. : P. Smith, 1958
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1939
Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1939
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
[New York : Columbia University Press, 1914
[New York : Columbia University Press, 1914
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
Richmond, Va. : Southern Publication Society, 1909
Richmond, Va. : Southern Publication Society, 1909
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
Richmond, Va. : Southern Publication Society, 1909
Richmond, Va. : Southern Publication Society, 1909
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
[United States : s.n., 1915
[United States : s.n., 1915
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
Boston : Ginn & Company, 1907
Boston : Ginn & Company, 1907
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by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934
Charleston, S.C. : BiblioBazaar, 2006
Charleston, S.C. : BiblioBazaar, 2006
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