Letter: Wilson's grasp of essentials

It should be noted that the late American historian Eugene Genovese, author of "Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made" (winner of the 1975 Bancroft Prize) and "Slavery in Black and White" (Cambridge University Press, 2008) - and many other books on the American South - gave the following endorsement to Douglas Wilson's 2005 book "Black and Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture, and Scripture in America":

"The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine."

Genovese goes on to say that Wilson has a better grasp of the essentials than many professional historians who, he thought, distorted and trivialized the issues surrounding the South, slavery and Scripture.

Jayson Grieser

Moscow