Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground by Barbara J. Fields

Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (Yale University Press, 1985), ISBN: 2-6.'Origins of the New South and the Negro Question', Journal of Southern History, Vol 67 No 4, November 2001.1994 Lincoln Prize by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College, for Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Emancipation, and the Civil War.Thomas Jefferson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government, for The Destruction of Slavery.Founders Prize of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, for The Destruction of Slavery.Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, for Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century

She received the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement in 2017. The book argues that race is a product of racism that racism is an ideology and a way of misunderstanding social reality and that racecraft in American society serves to obfuscate the actual dynamics of inequality.īard College awarded Fields an honorary doctorate in May 2007.

She is widely known for her 1990 essay, 'Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America.' She authored the 2012 book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (along with her sister Karen Fields, a sociologist). She has also taught at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Mississippi. Fields was the first African American woman to receive tenure at Columbia University.

Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground by Barbara J. Fields