Milton C. Sernett is an American historian, author, and professor at Syracuse University.
He has published many books, articles and book chapters on African American history. His published works in African-American history focus on abolitionism, religion, biographies and the Underground Railroad.
He has spent several years studying the anti-slavery movements in Upstate New York, particularly, the life of
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 slaves, including family and friends, us ...
.
He currently teaches in the Department of Religion, History Department and
Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University.
Early life
He is a graduate from
Concordia Seminary
Concordia Seminary is a Lutheran seminary in Clayton, Missouri. The institution's primary mission is to train pastors, deaconesses, missionaries, chaplains, and church leaders for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). Founded in 1839, t ...
in
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
. He received his master's degree and Ph.D. in American history from the
University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 mas ...
in 1972.
He served as s research fellow at the
WEB Du Bois Institute at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, in
Berlin
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Published works
Books
*''Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History'' - 2007
*''North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom'', Syracuse University Press - 2002
*''African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness'', Duke University Press- 1999
*''Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration'', Duke University Press - 1997
*''Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle'', Syracuse University Press - 1986
*''Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness'', Duke University Press - 1985 (1985-86 Choice Outstanding Academic Book)
*''Afro-American Religious History: Documents and Interpretations'', Syracuse University - 1981.
*''Black Religion And American Evangelism: White Protestants, Plantation Missions, and the Flowering of Negro Christianity, 1787-1865'' - 1975
Other publications
*“African American Religion,” for The Oxford Companion to United States History
*“On Freedom’s Trail: Researching the Underground Railroad in New York State,” for Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
Honors
* vice-chair - New York State Freedom Trail Commission - 2004
References
External links
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Living people
University of Delaware alumni
Syracuse University faculty
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Writers from Delaware
African-American history of Delaware
Historians of the United States
Historians from New York (state)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Historians of New York (state)
Concordia Seminary alumni
American male non-fiction writers
20th-century American historians
20th-century American male writers