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A profound, learned and detailed analysis of Negro slavery. It covers an incredible range of topics and offers fresh insights on nearly every page ... the author's great gift is his ability to penetrate the minds of bothslaves and masters, revealing not only how they viewed themselves and each other, but also how they contradictory perceptions interacted.
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Social conditions, Slaves, Slavery, United States, Condition of slaves, Conditions sociales, Esclaves, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Sklaverei, Condition des esclaves, Geschichte, Esclavage, Slaves, united states, social conditions, African Americans, HistoryPlaces
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Roll, Jordan, roll: the world the slaves made
1976, Vintage Books
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0394716523 9780394716527
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Roll, Jordan, roll: the world the slaves made
1974, Pantheon Books
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0394491319 9780394491318
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This landmark history of slavery in the South -- a winner of the Bancroft Prize -- challenged conventional views of slaves by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society. Rather than emphasizing the cruelty and degradation of slavery, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that slaves forced their owners to acknowledge their humanity through culture, music, and religion. Not merely passive victims, the slaves in this account actively engaged with the paternalism of slaveholding culture in ways that supported their self-respect and aspirations for freedom. Roll, Jordan, Roll covers a vast range of subjects, from slave weddings and funerals, to the language, food, clothing, and labor of slaves, and places particular emphasis on religion as both a major battleground for psychological control and a paradoxical source of spiritual strength. Displaying keen insight into the minds of both slaves and slaveholders, Roll, Jordan, Roll is a testament to the power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression. - Publisher.
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