| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro. By John David Smith. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxviii, 386 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2130-3.)

During the past two decades, several scholars of turn-of-the-twentieth-century African American history and literature have published important biographies of such persons as Carter G. Woodson, Archibald Grimké, Ida B. Wells, John Hope, Lugenia B. Hope, and others who were not of the historical stature of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois but whose thoughts and actions were nevertheless of great significance to their contemporaries. John David Smith's excellent detectivelike biography of William Hannibal Thomas is an interesting and intriguing historical investigation and a welcome addition to the dispassionate scholarship in the field of African American history. The work is based on a deft examination and analysis of a rich combination of archival, manuscript, and published sources and numerous secondary ones. Indeed, Smith has uncovered a mass of previously neglected data that provides insights into the mind of one of the least understood African Americans during the age of Booker T. Washington. . . .

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