The Preacher and the Politician is a concise and timely study that reminds us of the need to continue to confront the legacy of racism even as we celebrate advances in racial equality and opportunity.

Clarence E. Walker, Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, is the author of Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings and We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism. Gregory D. Smithers, author of Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, is Lecturer in American History at King's College, University of Aberdeen in Scotland.