Background
Dew, Charles Burgess was born on January 5, 1937 in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. Son of Jack Carlos and Amy (Meek) Dew.
(Charles Dew's unsurpassed Ironmaker to the Confederacy te...)
Charles Dew's unsurpassed Ironmaker to the Confederacy tells the story of the South's premier ironworks and its intrepid owner, Joseph Reid Anderson. Dew masterfully describes Tredegar's struggle to supply the Confederate nation with the weapons of war and is a seminal study of southern manufacturing and industrial slavery. Reviewers of the first edition praised its graceful style and excellent design, features that have mad it a valuable and much-sought-after title. The revised edition includes a new preface by the author, additional illustrations, and redesigned maps of the ironworks based on new site research and archaeology.
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( In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commission...)
In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leadership and the citizenry of the uncommitted slave states to join in the effort to destroy the Union and forge a new Southern nation. Directly refuting the neo-Confederate contention that slavery was neither the reason for secession nor the catalyst for the resulting onset of hostilities in 1861, Charles B. Dew finds in the commissioners' brutally candid rhetoric a stark white supremacist ideology that proves the contrary. The commissioners included in their speeches a constitutional justification for secession, to be sure, and they pointed to a number of political "outrages" committed by the North in the decades prior to Lincoln's election. But the core of their argument―the reason the right of secession had to be invoked and invoked immediately―did not turn on matters of constitutional interpretation or political principle. Over and over again, the commissioners returned to the same point: that Lincoln's election signaled an unequivocal commitment on the part of the North to destroy slavery and that emancipation would plunge the South into a racial nightmare. Dew's discovery and study of the highly illuminating public letters and speeches of these apostles of disunion―often relatively obscure men sent out to convert the unconverted to the secessionist cause--have led him to suggest that the arguments the commissioners presented provide us with the best evidence we have of the motives behind the secession of the lower South in 1860–61. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century after the Civil War, Dew challenges many current perceptions of the causes of the conflict. He offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were absolutely critical factors in the outbreak of war―indeed, that they were at the heart of our great national crisis.
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( A study of African-American workers empowered and partl...)
A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills. At Buffalo Forge, an extensive ironmaking and farming enterprise in Virginia before the Civil War, a unique treasury of materials yields an "engrossing, often surprising record of everyday life on an estate in the antebellum South" (Kirkus Reviews).
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Dew, Charles Burgess was born on January 5, 1937 in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. Son of Jack Carlos and Amy (Meek) Dew.
Bachelor of Arts, Williams College, 1958; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1964.
Instructor, Wayne State University, 1963-1964; assistant professor, Wayne State University, 1964-1965; assistant professor, Louisiana State University, 1965-1968; associate professor, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1968-1972; professor, U. Missouri, 1972-1978; visiting associate professor, University of Virginia, 1970-1971; visiting professor of history, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1977-1978; professor of history, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1978-1985; Class of 1956 professor American Studies, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1985-1996; department chairman history, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1986-1992; director Francis C. Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1994-1997; professor social science, W. Van Alan Clark Third Century, since 1996.
( In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commission...)
(Charles Dew's unsurpassed Ironmaker to the Confederacy te...)
( A study of African-American workers empowered and partl...)
Member of Organization American Historians (Elliott Rudwick award 1995), American History Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Psi.
Married Robb Reavill Forman, January 26, 1968.