Roll, Jordan, Roll: World the Slaves Made

Eugene D. Genovese

ISBN 10: 0233967176 / ISBN 13: 9780233967172

Verlag: Andre Deutsch, London, 1975

Beschreibung

HARDBACK IN JACKET 1975. 1st printing. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has only a little edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: £7.50 net. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H6. Roll, Jordan, Roll: World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 032953

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Roll, Jordan, Roll: World the Slaves Made

Verlag: Andre Deutsch, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1975

Einband: Hard Boards

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition

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Críticas:

This weighty book intends to "tell the story of slave life as carefully and accurately as possible." Less given over to theoretical and topical polemic than Genovese's earlier works on Southern slavery, it is by no means a catalogue. It amplifies Genovese's stress on the humanity slaves were able to preserve through de facto accommodations on the part of both slave and master, through the reciprocal play of "elementary human reactions" across class and color lines, and through the slaves' "strong sense of stewardship" for one another. This is a necessary transcendence of many other historians' dehumanizing view of both slaves and slaveholders, and to it Genovese brings his intellectual expansiveness and depth of feeling as he further documents key points featured in The World the Slaveholders Made (1969) and The Red and the Black (1972): the resourcefulness and egalitarianism of many house servants, the protective, responsible character of many black drivers, the prevalence of family stability and the nourishment Christianity afforded against degradation. Some critics will argue persuasively that Genovese has not done justice to southern slavery's deprivation, brutality and murder. As a matter of page-by-page arithmetic, Genovese certainly places more weight on young folks' play by the cabin door than on "evidence of widespread dirt-eating." The question - raised very differently by Fogel and Engerman in Time on the Cross (KR, p. 220), whose econometric inferences crosshatch Genovese's view - is one of method and concept in shaping the evidence. The subject will be pursued in debates, and anyone concerned with human development should read Genovese's book to knowledgeably participate. (Kirkus Reviews)