Teach Me Dreams : : The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era /

Teach Me Dreams : : The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era / / Mechal Sobel.

One day in 1698, Robert Pyle of Pennsylvania decided to buy a black slave. The next night he dreamed of a steep ladder to heaven that he felt he could not climb because he carried a black pot. In the dream, a man told him the ladder was the light of Jesus Christ and would bear any whose faith held s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Sobel, Mechal,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2000
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 34 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. "Teach me Dreams": Learning to Use Dreams to Refashion the Self
  • 2. Whites' Black Alien Other
  • 3. Blacks' White Enemy Other
  • 4. "Making Men What They Should Be"
  • 5. Women Seeking What They Would Be
  • Coda "In Dreams Begins Responsibility"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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