Melvin Patrick Ely Books

A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South - Hardcover

A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South - Hardcover

A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South - Hardcover

By Melvin Patrick Ely
Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865 - Paperback

Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865 - Paperback

Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865 - Paperback

By Melvin Patrick Ely, Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, and Stephen Rockenbach
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War - Paperback

Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War - Paperback

Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War - Paperback

By Melvin Patrick Ely

About Melvin Patrick Ely

Melvin Patrick Ely is the author of Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War, which won the Bancroft Prize, and The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon. Ely is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at the College of William & Mary, having earlier taught history and African American studies at Yale. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.