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Title: The World They Made Together by Mechal Sobel ISBN: 0-691-00608-3 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Black, white, shades of grey, but just a little too rosy.
Comment: Substantially, I agree with the other reviewer. Sobel argues successfully that there existed in the South (at any rate in Virginia) during the Antebellum period a culture that displayed African influences, and that these influences were visible not just among blacks but among whites, who increasingly were raised by slaves, learned to walk and talk from slaves, and in some cases were unable to function emotionally or physically without slaves.
What's missing from the picture is the abuse and cruelty inherent to the slave system. And, one could argue, appropriately: it's not what the book is about. My concern would be that if this were the *only* book one read about the Antebellum South, one could emerge with a skewed picture.
Rating: 5
Summary: The World They Made Together
Comment: Sobel uses the concept of "world views" to support her argument that although the English and the different cultures in West Africa had separate world views, the close interaction between 18th-century Virginian whites and blacks resulted in these separate world views deeply influencing each other. In the 18th century, black and white children played together, white children often had a black woman as a "surrogate mother", and blacks and whites often worshipped together. This close interaction reinforced perceptions, values, and identities (world views) that were common between the two world view systems and, with time, the differences between the world views resulted in each world view being influenced by the other until they developed a symbiotic relationship.
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Title: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys Isaac ISBN: 080784814X Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan ISBN: 0807847178 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Religion in the Old South by Donald G. Mathews ISBN: 0226510026 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1979 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan ISBN: 039332494X Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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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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