Them Dark Days

The best local history of slavery published since Charles Joyner's Down by the Riverside . . . An important corrective to recent scholarship and adds new meaning to the neo-abolitionist interpretation.

--History: Reviews of New Books There is no other book quite like Them Dark Days. . . . His scholarship is awesome. Dusinberre has a great deal to say that is fresh and exciting about slavery, and his writing style is always clear and often eloquent. . . . I found Them Dark Days both stimulating and enjoyable.

--Charles Joyner "Coastal Carolina College " The book provides a wealth of information on the antebellum lowcountry rice industry and the families that dominated it.

--Agricultural History Dusinberre certainly knows how to tell a good story. And if some of his material proves to be familiar to lowcountry scholars, these specialists will nevertheless appreciate his detective work in piecing together a coherent, moving account of the complex negotiations and struggles between tidewater slaves and their masters.

--Journal of Southern History William Dusinberre has restored a tragic dimension to slave studies, and has done so with a thoroughness and persuasiveness that no future student of slavery will be able to ignore.

--Journal of Southwest Georgia History [This book] will, I believe, take its place among the most important studies of southern slavery we have and are likely to get.

--Eugene D. Genovese "African American Review " [A] vast and multifaceted new interpretation of slavery. Among his most impressive achievements is that he draws from these all-too-familiar sources so much that is fresh, provocative, and fully worthy of our attention. . . . Dusinberre's arguments are compelling.

--American Historical Review One of the most ambitious and important studies on slavery to appear in recent years.

--Journal of American History