American historian
Milton C. Sernett is an American historian, author, and professor at Syracuse University.[ 1] He has published many books, articles and book chapters on African American history. His published works in African-American history focus on abolitionism, religion, biographies and the Underground Railroad.[ 2] He has spent several years studying the anti-slavery movements in Upstate New York, particularly, the life of Harriet Tubman .[ 3]
He currently teaches in the Department of Religion, History Department and Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University .
He is a graduate from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri .[ 4] He received his master's degree and Ph.D. in American history from the University of Delaware in 1972.[ 2] He served as s research fellow at the WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies , in Berlin [ 5]
Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History - 2007
North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom , Syracuse University Press - 2002 [ 1]
African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness , Duke University Press- 1999
Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration , Duke University Press - 1997 [ 6]
Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle , Syracuse University Press - 1986 [ 7]
Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness , Duke University Press - 1985 (1985-86 Choice Outstanding Academic Book)
Afro-American Religious History: Documents and Interpretations , Syracuse University - 1981.
Black Religion And American Evangelism: White Protestants, Plantation Missions, and the Flowering of Negro Christianity, 1787-1865 - 1975“African American Religion,” for The Oxford Companion to United States History
“On Freedom’s Trail: Researching the Underground Railroad in New York State,” for Afro-Americans in New York Life and History vice-chair - New York State Freedom Trail Commission - 2004
^ a b Books, Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's. "Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History by Milton C. Sernett" . Powells.com . Retrieved 20 August 2017 . ((cite web ))
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^ a b "Milton C. Sernett, Professor Emeritus, History and African American Studies" . Maxwell.syr.edu . Retrieved 20 August 2017 .
^ "Harriet Tubman Talk Draws Overflow Crowd" (PDF) . Northcountryundergroundrailroad.com . Retrieved 2017-08-20 .
^ Pan African Studies Newsletter, 'Milton C. Sernett' - Pan African Studies at Syracuse University Newsletter, Special Edition, 2004/2005 p4
^ Pan African Studies Newsletter, 'Milton C. Sernett ' - Pan African Studies at Syracuse University Newsletter, Special Edition, 2004/2005 p4
^ Books, Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's. "Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History by Milton C. Sernett" . Powells.com . Retrieved 20 August 2017 . ((cite web ))
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^ Knoblauch, Edward H. "The Antislavery Alliance of Gerrit Smith and Beriah Green - New York History Net" . Nyhistory.com . Retrieved 20 August 2017 .
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