| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

John Ernest. Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794–1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 426. Cloth $59.95, paper $21.95.

John Ernest's first book, Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper (1995), made a significant contribution to the study of early African-American literature. His second book places him solidly at the forefront of that field of study, in league with our most careful, nuanced, and erudite scholars. His knowledge of the field is encyclopedic, his command of the secondary critical literature is thorough, and his theoretical observations are not only timely and useful but also eloquently articulated. This is a unique work of scholarship that demonstrates what is possible when a scholar who is a serious student of literature and culture also becomes a serious student of history and historiography.

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