Wilbert L. Jenkins, Ph.D.
913 Gladfelter Hall
(215) 204-5663

Doctoral Dissertation:
“Chaos, Conflict and Control: The Responses of the Newly-Freed Slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to Emancipation and Recontruction, 1865 – 1877.”

Education:
B.A. Winston-Salem State University, Winston Salem, 1977
M.A. Ball State University, Muncie, 1978
Ph.D. Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1989

Selected Publications:
Wilbert L. Jenkins, Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston, Indiana University Press, 1998.

Wilbert L. Jenkins, Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Scholarly Resources, 2002.

Review of A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens, Donald Yacovone, ed., University of Illinois Press, 1997, in The Journal of Southern History.

Review of Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, Sally E. Hadden, Harvard University Press, 2001, in Plantation Society in the Americas, (Forthcoming 2002).