Julie Winch
History professor and author in the United States
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Julie Winch is a history professor and author in the United States. She was born in London. She wrote a book about Philadelphia's black elite[1] and edited, introduced, and footnoted Joseph Wilson's account of the city's elite before the Civil War.[2] She also wrote a book about James Forten[3][4] and the prominent family of Jacques Clamorgan in St. Louis and the Clamorgan family.[5][6]
She spoke about James Forten at the Museum of the American Revolution.[7][8] She reviewed Laura Arnold Leibman's book about a Jewish family.[9]
Writings
- Philadelphia's Black Elite; Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy 1787-1848 Temple University Press (1988)[10][11]
- A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten Oxford University Press (2003)[12]
- James Forten; Liberty's Black Champion (2011)
- The Clamogans; One Family's History of Race in America (2011)
- Between Slavery and Freedom; Free People of Color in America from Settlement to the Civil War Rowman & Littlefield (2014)
Editor
- The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis University of Missouri Press (1999)[13]
- The Elite of Our People; Joseph Willson’s Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia (2000)[14] based on Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia (1841)[15]
