{"title":"Melvin Patrick Ely","description":"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 \u0026amp; Mary, having earlier taught history and African American studies at Yale. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/melvin-patrick-ely.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}