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Volume 72, Issue 74,
Friday, January 19, 2007
News Prof earns award for book Deyle's work focuses on American slave trade and its impact on families, the economy The Daily Cougar News Staff Associate professor of history Steven Deyle received an award for a book on the American slave trade, the University announced this month. "I'm very pleased with winning the award. It's a nice honor and distinction," Deyle said. Deyle won the Bennett H. Wall Award from the Southern Historical Association for Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. Deyle's book examines the impact of the slave trade on American society. l "Much of it has to do with the economy of the South and looking at the slave trade as a business," Deyle said. "It tells the story of how slaves (resisted) and the devastating effect it had on black people and their families. It was a very horrible system, and people resisted it in any way you can imagine." The book garnered positive reviews from peers. "Carry Me Back is a book we have long needed -- a synthetic, regionwide treatment of the domestic slave trade," David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University, wrote in a review. "Deyle's deep research and lucid writing convincingly show that the sale and transport of human property from the upper to lower South was a national tragedy of epic proportions, a grand economic enterprise that both forged the Cotton Kingdom and was the root of its undoing." The Department of History listed Deyle, who was hired at the University in 2006, as specializing in 19th-century U.S. history with concentrations in slavery and the antebellum South. Deyle teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. The Bennett H. Wall Award is given every two years for a work published on Southern business or economic history. The SHA was created in 1934 and promotes insightful study and preservation of Southern history. Send comments to dcnews@mail.uh.edu |
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