Frederic Bancroft
Frederic Bancroft (born October 30, 1860 in Galesburg (Illinois) , † February 22, 1945 in Washington, DC ) was an American historian .
Life
Bancroft graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's degree and a PhD from Columbia University . After a year as a lecturer at Columbia University, he was from 1888 to 1892 librarian in the State Department . He later lectured regularly at Columbia University.
Bancroft was primarily concerned with the history of slavery in the southern states and wrote a biography of William H. Seward . His book on the history of slavery contained original material that he obtained from interviews with former slaves and correspondence with other people involved. It showed the exploitative and inhuman practices of slavery (separation of families, breeding of slaves), which primarily served the economic interests of the slave owners. He contradicted earlier widespread views of other historians (such as Ulrich Bonnell Phillips ).
He was active in the American Historical Association and in its reform around 1915. The Bancroft Prize for Historians at Columbia University is named after him.
His brother Edgar Bancroft (1857-1925) was the US ambassador to Japan.
Fonts
- Slave Trading in the Old South, Baltimore: Furst 1931, reprints 1959 (New York: Ungar, foreword Allan Nevins ), 1996 (University of South Carolina Press, foreword Michael Tadman)
- A sketch of the Negro in politics, especially in South Carolina and Mississippi, New York: JF Pearson 1885
- Life of William H. Seward, 2 volumes, New York, London: Harper and Brothers 1900, volume 1 , volume 2
- Calhoun and the South Carolina nullification movement, Johns Hopkins Press 1928
In 1907/8 he published the memoirs of Carl Schurz (New York: McClure) and in 1913 his speeches, political works and letters (3 volumes).
literature
- Jacob E. Cooke Frederic Bancroft. Historian , University of Oklahoma Press 1957 (with biography and unpublished essay by Bancroft The colonization of American Negroes from 1801 to 1865 )
- Charles P. Whittemore Frederic Bancroft (1860-1945) , Master's thesis, Columbia University Press 1947
- The Encyclopedia Americana; the international reference work. : volume III, Americana Corporation, New York, 1962, p. 135.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bancroft, Frederic |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Galesburg, Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1945 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |