>>> LeoCasey at aol.com 10/11/00 10:09AM >>>
Aptheker is at best a pedestrian historian, and his record of being an
apologist for Stalinism is long and sordid. Whatever contributions he made to
the historiography of slavery [one could not rank him with a Genovese,
certainly] and to the development of future generations of historians must be
balanced against these political failings, especially because he himself so
thoroughly mixed politics and historical scholarship.
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CB: The rank Genovese has is racist historian of slavery and the South.