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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.
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    Roll, Jordan, roll : the world the slaves made

    Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012
    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.
    Date Issued or Published
    1976
    Copyright
    IN COPYRIGHT
    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.
  • Summary: The memoirs of Job, a man sold into slavery in Maryland and later England.
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    Some memoirs of the life of Job the son of Solomon the high priest of Boonda in Africa, who was a slave about two years in Maryland, and afterwards being brought to England, was set free and sent to his native land in the year 1734

    Bluett, Thomas
    Summary: The memoirs of Job, a man sold into slavery in Maryland and later England.
    Date Issued or Published
    1734
    Copyright
    COPYRIGHT UNDETERMINED
    Summary: The memoirs of Job, a man sold into slavery in Maryland and later England.
  • Summary: An autobiography of Olaudah Equiano.
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    The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African written by himself

    Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797
    Summary: An autobiography of Olaudah Equiano.
    Date Issued or Published
    1809
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
    Summary: An autobiography of Olaudah Equiano.
  • An exploration of African American history through songs, music, and speech with accompanying recording.
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    The sounds of slavery : discovering African American history through songs, sermons, and speech

    White, Shane
    An exploration of African American history through songs, music, and speech with accompanying recording.
    Date Issued or Published
    2005
    Copyright
    IN COPYRIGHT
    An exploration of African American history through songs, music, and speech with accompanying recording.
  • Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.
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    Trabelin' on : the slave journey to an Afro-Baptist faith

    Sobel, Mechal
    Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.
    Date Issued or Published
    1988
    Copyright
    IN COPYRIGHT
    Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.
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