The World They Made Together : : Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia /

The World They Made Together : : Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia / / Mechal Sobel.

In the recent past, enormous creative energy has gone into the study of American slavery, with major explorations of the extent to which African culture affected the culture of black Americans and with an almost totally new assessment of slave culture as Afro-American. Accompanying this new awarenes...

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Sobel, Mechal,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1987
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (388 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Attitudes Toward Time and Work
  • 1. World Views in England and West Africa
  • 2. English and African Perceptions of Time
  • 3. Afro-American Attitudes
  • 4. Shared English and African Experiences of Work
  • 5. Anglo-American Attitudes
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Part Two. Attitudes Toward Space and the Natural World
  • 7. African and English Attitudes
  • 8. Black and White Visions in and of America
  • 9. Sharing Space Inside the Little House
  • 10. Sharing Space Inside the Big House
  • 11. Naming the Inhabitants
  • 12. Conclusions
  • Part Three. Understandings of Causality and Purpose
  • 13. African and English Explanations of Death and the Afterlife
  • 14. The Awakening to the Spirit in Virginia
  • 15. The Later Fruits of the Great Awakening
  • 16. Attitudes Toward Death and the Afterlife in Virginia
  • 17. Conclusions
  • Part Four. Coda
  • 18. Coherent World Views
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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