What is it about?
Elkins compared plantation slavery to Nazi concentration camps. He argued that the slave persona was shaped by total domination. This essay shows why he was wrong but how he remains a source of insight.
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Why is it important?
Elkins is too easily rejected. His analogy was overdrawn but it sparked a new phase in scholarship.
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This page is a summary of: The Incomparable Elkins, Rethinking History, March 1997, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13642529708596303.
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