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Title: Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese ISBN: 0-394-71652-3 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The last word in documenting slave culture
Comment: Genovese's work, while extremely long and, I think pretentious at times in its tone, it is extemely well researched and is currently the last word on slave culture and the interaction between master and slave on southern plantations.
One of his most striking observations that I can still rember reading even after five years is his concept of paternalism and how masters and slaves viewed the concept differently.
Masters felt it was their duty to take care of their "children" the slaves by providing food and certain privilages, like whisky on Christmas and New Years. In return, masters expected obedience, but even more crucually, love in return. Slaves on the other hand saw those "privilages" as rights and would act up if certain privilages were taken away. When emancipation came, Genovese argues, that masters were really quite emotionally hurt when their slaves decided to run away--the masters came to see themselves as the only way that their "children" could survive. The hurt was even more acute when the slaves joined up with the union army to attack the very plantations and masters that took care of them. One can easily see how this feeling of ungratefulness could lead to cruelty and violence in the south following the civil war.
When I was in college a few years back, this book was seen by my professors as _the_ final word on the subject of 19th century slave culture
Rating: 5
Summary: milestone cultural history book--a fascinating discussion !!
Comment: This was one of the most interesting books I have read in history (up there with Darnton's The Great Cat Massacre). There is the tendency to view blacks of slavery times as victims and victims only; this book conveys the richness of the culture and more importantly their humanity; The chapters on courtship rituals were extremely entertaining and fascinating. I haven't read widely of the time period, but this ranks as the best of what I've read so far.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thorough account of Slavery in America
Comment: "Roll, Jordan, Roll," by Eugene D. Genovese goes into great detail on the subject. While Genovese is hardly an apologist for Southern slaveholders, he fully documents their case, citing numerous sociologists and historians who state that the physical living conditions of most slaves exceeded that of the working poor of Europe (and in many cases America as well). Virginia planters such as the people I descend from tended to treat their slaves better than those on the frontier or people like the ancestors of Edward Ball (Slaves in the Family), who owned enormous rice plantations. Don't get the idea that anyone gets off easy. The hypocracy and cruelty of the slaveholder class is documented in painful detail. The book is at times overly academic, but Genovese quotes extensively from court decisions, slaveholder correspondence and accounts by former slaves and those who fought for their freedom. Whether your interest in the subject is academic or personal, I doubt you will find a more thoroughly documented account of America's most "peculiar" institution.
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Title: The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South by Kenneth Milton Stampp ISBN: 0679723072 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: American Slavery 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin ISBN: 0809016303 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South by John W. Blassingame ISBN: 0195025636 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ISBN: 080784232X Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life by Stanley M. Elkins ISBN: 0226204774 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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