Herbert Aptheker
Herbert Aptheker · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Historian whose scholarship on American Negro slave revolts documented Black resistance and challenged racist historiography of slavery.
1915, Brooklyn, New York, USA — 2003, Mountain View, California, USA
New York City; California
Herbert Aptheker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Historian whose scholarship on American Negro slave revolts documented Black resistance and challenged racist historiography of slavery.
Herbert Aptheker was a Jewish American Marxist historian whose scholarship, especially 'American Negro Slave Revolts', documented Black resistance to slavery and challenged racist historiography. He edited the papers of W. E. B. Du Bois and championed the study of African American history. His work reshaped how the history of slavery and resistance is understood.
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Historian whose scholarship on American Negro slave revolts documented Black resistance and challenged racist historiography of slavery.
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