An Environmental History of Slavery: An Interview with David Silkenat
In today’s post, Adam X. McNeil, a regular contributor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. David Silkenat on his new book, Scars on the Land An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South (Oxford University Press, 2022). Silkenat is a Senior Lecturer of American History at the University of Edinburgh. A native of New York City, he received his undergraduate degree in History from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. After several years of teaching high school in Florida, Silkenat returned to North Carolina for graduate study at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. From 2008 to 2013, he taught at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the author of three additional books: Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War (UNC Press, 2019), Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize; Driven from Home: North Carolina’s Civil War Refugee Crisis (UGA Press 2015), winner of the North Caroliniana Society Book Award; and, Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina (UNC Press, 2011), winner of the North Caroliniana Society Book Award.
Source: African American Intellectual History Society
