Erskine Clarke is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Our Southern Zion and By the Rivers of Water. His book Dwelling Place received the Bancroft Prize, which is considered one of the most prestigious awards in American history writing, as well as the Mary Lawton Hodges Book Prize and the Malcolm Barrow Bell Award. He is professor emeritus of American religious history at Columbia Theological Seminary.
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Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minist... SEE MORE