Michael P. Johnson (1) (1941–)

Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively, taught, and lectured on the social and political history of slavery and freedom in the Civil War era. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The mostrar más Secession of Georgia (1977); No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (1984); and, with James Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984). He is coauthor of The American Promise: A History of the United States (Bedford/St. Martin's) and editor of Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's). mostrar menos