Eugence Dominic Genosvese (May 19, 1930-) was formally a Marxist and historian of the American South. Today, Genosvese considers himself to be a conservative. Genosvese was born in New York City and was awarded a BA from the Brooklyn College in 1953, a MA from Columbia University in 1955, and a PhD in 1959. Genosvese taught at the Polytechnic Institute in his native Brooklyn from 1958 to 1963. He was a history professor at Rutgers University (1963-1967), Sir George Williams University in Montreal (1967-1969), and at the University of Rochester (1969-1986). From 1986 onwards, Genosvese has taught at the University of Georgia, the Georgia Institue of Technology and Georgia State University. In 1969, he married the historian Elizabeth Fox. May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... Rutgers University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is located in New Brunswick, Piscataway, Camden and Newark, New Jersey. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony) Ville de Montréal, Québec, Canada Location. ... Located in Rochester, New York and founded in 1850, the University of Rochester is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian institution. ... The Arch, the gateway to UGAs historic North Campus. ... Georgia State University   © Georgia State University Georgia State University (GSU) is an urban research university in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves over 28,000 students, and is one of The University System of Georgias four research universities. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

In the 1960s, Genovese depricted the masters of the slaves as part of a "seigneurial" society that was anti-modern, pre-bourgeois and pre-capitialist. In his best known book Roll, Jordon, Roll, Genovese examined the world of the slaves. Genovese saw the pre-1865 South as closed and organicilly united paternalist society that cruelly exploited and attempted to dehumanize the slaves. Genovese paid close attention to the religion in the daily life of the slaves as a form of resistence as gave the slaves humanity. Genovese redefined resistence to slavery as any form of effort on the part of the slaves to give themseleves humanity and thus implictly rejecting their status as slaves.

In his 1979 book, From Rebellion to Revolution Genovese saw the a change in slave rebellions to mere attempts to win freedom to a effort to overthrow slavery as a social system. In the 1983 book he co-wrote his wife, The Fruits of Merchant Capital, Genovese underscorced what he saw as tensions between bourgeois property and slavery. In the view of the Genoveses, slavery was "hybrid system" that was both pre-capitalistic and capitalisitc.

Starting in 1990s, Genovese has turned his attention to the history conservativism in the South, a tradition that Genovese has come to celebrate more and more. Starting in 1992, Genovese has morved sharply to the right, denoucned Marxism and now supports the GOP.

Work

• The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and the Society of the Slave South, 1965.
• In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History, 1968.
• The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation, 1969.
• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, 1974.
• From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World, 1979.
• co-written with Elizabeth Fox-Genosvese, Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism, 1983.
• The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860, 1992.
• The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism, 1994.
• The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War, 1995.

Reference

• Boles John & Nolen, Elelyn Thomas (editors) Interpreting Southern History: Hiostoriographical Essays in Honour of Sanford W. Higginbotham, Baton Rouge, Louisana State University Press, 1987.
• Davis, David Brion "Southern Comfort" pages 43-46 from New York Review of Books, October 5, 1995.
• Meier, August & Elliott, Rudwirck Black History and the Historical Prfession, 1915-1980,

Urbana: Univerisity of Illinois Press, 1986.

• Parish, Peter Slavery: History and Historians, New York: Harper, 1989.
• Roper, John Herbert "Marxing through Georgia: Eugene Genovese and Radical Historiography for the Region" pages 77-92 from the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume 80, 1996.
• Shalhope, Robert E. "Eugene Genovese, the Misouri Elite and Civil War Historiogrphy" pages 271-282 from Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume 26, July 1970.
• Steirer, WilliamF. "Eugene D. Genovese: Marxist-Romantic Historian of the South" pages 840-850 from the Southern Review, Volume 10, 1974.