Eugene D. Genovese

Roll, Jordan, Roll (eBook, ePUB)

The World the Slaves Made

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A testament to the power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression, this landmark history of slavery in the South challenged conventional views by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society. Displaying keen insight into the minds of both enslaved persons and slaveholders, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that enslaved persons forced their owners to acknowledge their humanity through culture, music, and religion. He covers a vast range of subjects, from slave weddings and funerals, to language, food, clothing, and labor, and places particular emphasis on religion as both a major battleground for psychological control and a paradoxical source of spiritual strength. A winner of the Bancroft Prize.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 864
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307772725
• Artikelnr.: 45046793

Autorenporträt

Eugene D. Genovese was the author of several books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll, for which he won the Bancroft Prize; The Southern Tradition; and The Southern Front. Genovese was known for his Marxist perspective in regards to the study of power, class, and race relations in during plantation life in the old south. Genovese passed away in 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Book One: God is Not Mocked
Part 1. Of the Willing and the Obedient
Part 2. ...and the Children Brought Up
Book Two: The Rock and the Church
Part 1. Of the God of the Living
Part 2. ...and Every Man According as His Work Shall Be
Book Three: The Valley of the Shadow
Part 1. Of the Sons of Jacob
Part 2. ...and the Coat of Many Colors
Book Four: Whom God Hath Hedged In