TY - JOUR
AU - Stampp, Kenneth M.
AB - Communications countless manifestations of an evolving pan­ TO THE EDiTOR: African consciousness ~nd the quest for a new I would like to correct a statement that appears black identity. It is a gross distortion to say that in Robert W. Fogel's article, "The Limits of I concentrate on African clothing. Quantitative Methods in History" (AHR, 80 It is noteworthy that although the reviewer [1975]: 329-5 0 ). Because of the nature of Fogel's found nothing of value in Ebony Kinship, five argument, this misstatement strikes me as rather different professional journals, including Race ironic; but it illustrates the wisdom of the and Caribbean Studies, had previously pub­ quantifier's admonition to historians to learn lished six articles of mine based on material in to count. the book. On page 344 Fogel turns to the historiography It is highly significant that Winston finds my of Southern slavery to illustrate the folly "of occasional reference to Eldridge Cleaver and attempts to resolve essentially statistical issues Stokely Carmichael as "Eldridge" and "Stokely" by nonstatistical procedures." He claims that condescending. Both in speech and in writing the "neo-abolitionists have charged that slaves blacks frequently refer to Cleaver and Car­ were nutritionally starved, using as 
TI - To the Editor
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/80.5.1425-a
DA - 1975-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/to-the-editor-13aRCJzBXP
SP - 1425
EP - 1425
VL - 80
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -