Milton C Sernett is a historian, author, and professor at Syracuse University. He has published many books, articles and book chapters on African American history. His published works in African-American history focus on abolitionism, religion, biographies and the Underground Railroad. He has spent several years studying the anti-slavery movements in Upstate New york, particularly, the life of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Harriet Ross; (1820 – 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves...

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He currently teaches in the Department of Religion, History Department and Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University

Department of African American Studies - Syracuse University

The Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University is a leading Africana studies department in the United States. It is a prominent independent department at Syracuse University that has had a long history of activism and scholarship in Black and Pan African Studies...

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Early life

He is a graduate from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis Missouri. Pan African Studies Newsletter, 'Milton C. Sernett' - Pan African Studies at Syracuse University Newsletter, Special Edition, 2004/2005 p4 He received his Masters and Phd in American history from the University of Delaware

University of Delaware

The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...

in 1972.. He served as s research fellow at the WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies . Pan African Studies Newsletter, 'Milton C. Sernett ' - Pan African Studies at Syracuse University Newsletter, Special Edition, 2004/2005 p4

Books

• Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History - 2007
• North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom, Syracuse University Press - 2002
• African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Duke University Press- 1999
• Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration, Duke University Press - 1997
• Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle, Syracuse University Press - 1986
• Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Duke University Press - 1985 (1985-86 Choice Outstanding Academic Book)
• Afro-American Religious History: Documents and Interpretations, Syracuse University - 1981.
• Black Religion And American Evangelism: White Protestants, Plantation Missions, and the Flowering of Negro Christianity, 1787-1865 - 1975

Other Publications

• “African American Religion,” for The Oxford Companion to United States History
• “On Freedom’s Trail: Researching the Underground Railroad in New York State,” for Afro-Americans in New York Life and History