Eugene D. Genovese

Eugene D. Genovese became an influential historian whose scholarship examined slavery, class, religion, and social relations across the Americas. From Rebellion to Revolution developed from his Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures and studies enslaved people’s resistance across the American South, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Louisiana State University Press presents an inquiry into how revolts moved from restoration-minded action toward revolutionary politics, with Saint-Domingue and Toussaint Louverture central to that transformation. Genovese’s wider work includes Roll, Jordan, Roll, which received the Bancroft Prize and helped establish his reputation as a major historian of the antebellum South. His arguments often joined close attention to plantation society with comparative history and debates about power. From Rebellion to Revolution therefore rewards readers seeking an interpretive historical study rather than a chronological survey, connecting particular uprisings to changing political ideas and the emergence of the modern world.