Eugene Genovese
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Oct 8, 2026
Daniel TuttHOST
Uh, how did that come about? And can you ...
Daniel TuttHOST
So now we'll kind of address the, the, the heart of ... 'Cause you do mention, uh, several Marxist historians, and one of whom, Eugene Genovese, probably the most well-known, I suppose, who I've introduced on the show before.
Daniel TuttHOST
He's a very symptomatic and very complicated figure.
David McNallyGUEST
Mm-hmm.
David McNallyGUEST
Marx saw the center of the system as the capital wage-labor relationship, but he recognized a whole series of forms of bondage that could coexist with it.
David McNallyGUEST
So I think this was a large part of the problem.
David McNallyGUEST
Eugene Genovese, who you mentioned, I think made that first error.
David McNallyGUEST
He saw even the Southern plantocracy, the planters, as essentially similar to an ancient aristocracy.
Alan HarrelsonGUEST
And this is, of course, what Wendell Berry taps into as well.
Alan HarrelsonGUEST
And so the historian, I mentioned Eugene Genovese in that essay, a little book he wrote in 94 entitled The Southern Tradition.
Alan HarrelsonGUEST
And Genovese articulates this very well.
Alan HarrelsonGUEST
He talks about Pope Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum and this notion that the Catholic Church was highly, highly concerned in the 1880s and 1890s about the growth of the commodification of human relationships.
George BagbyGUEST
Just go read about it.
George BagbyGUEST
Go read Eugene Genovese.
George BagbyGUEST
Go read Roll Jordan Roll.
George BagbyGUEST
Go read Stanley and Ingerman, Time on the Cross.
George BagbyGUEST
Just go read about it.
George BagbyGUEST
Go read Eugene Genovese.
George BagbyGUEST
Go read Roll Jordan Roll.
George BagbyGUEST
Um, go read, uh, Stanley and Ingram and time on the cross.
Mehdi HasanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he equated you and your co-author to Holocaust deniers.
Mehdi HasanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What's your response to him and many other acclaimed historians who have condemned your book?
Doug WilsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, I would say that another acclaimed historian, Eugene Genovese, wrote the blurb for my follow-up book, Black and Tan, and he was quite the opposite.
Doug WilsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But
Mehdi HasanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That makes you sound insanely racist, Doug Wilson.
Doug WilsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, if you read the slave narratives, not only do you have the horrific behaviors that would be right out of the abolitionist playbook, you also have accounts that sound like they were the raw material.
Mehdi HasanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Come on, Doug Wilson, the historians who have read the slave narratives, Ira Berlin, Claiborne Carson, Peter Wood, these are some of America's greatest historians of the South of slavery, completely reject your analysis.
Mehdi HasanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They've called it incomprehensible.
Doug WilsonHOST
The sin of omission here is that there are historians on both sides of this question.
Doug WilsonHOST
They failed to quote Eugene Genovese, a renowned historian who won the Bancroft Prize in 1975, for Roll, Jordan, Roll, The World the Slaves Made.
Doug WilsonHOST
In short, he was a recognized expert on that era of American history.
Doug WilsonHOST
Dr. Genovese was kind enough to read through the manuscript of Black and Tan, my follow-up book on the issues of slavery and the Confederacy, and here's what he said about it.
Doug WilsonHOST
Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms.
Doug WilsonHOST
And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.
Doug WilsonHOST
eugene genovese blurb for black and tan and speaking of black and tan that brings up the other sin of omission a very brief mention of that book is made near the end of this section on slavery but black and tan really is a comprehensive statement of my views on the subject a reasonable review of the slavery controversy would really need to engage with the arguments of that book and this article did nothing of the kind This article and my book-length arguments passed each other like a couple of Trappist monks in the corridor." Wilson held a conference at the University of Idaho in 2004 for those who supported his ideas.
Doug WilsonHOST
The university published a disclaimer distancing itself from the event, and numerous anti-conference protests took place.