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African Americans
Americans
Amulet
Aunt
Author_Mechal Sobel
Bacon's Rebellion
Baptists
Black people
Burial
Catechism
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Cemetery
Child of God
Christian Vision
Christianity
Courtesy
Criticism
Damnation
Dogtrot house
Dwelling
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Eternal life (Christianity)
Ethnic group
George Whitefield
God
Grace Sherwood
Grandparent
Great Father
Harriet Powers
Hemings
His Family
Historical society
Household
Institution
Isaac Jefferson
John Custis
Laborer
Landon Carter
Literature
Mansion
Manumission
Meeting house
Methodism
Moral responsibility
Mulatto
Newgate
North America
Olaudah Equiano
Piety
Presbyterianism
Pro forma
Protestantism
Puritans
Quakers
R. D. Laing
Randolph Jefferson
Religion
Religious experience
Resurrection of the dead
Rite
Samuel Davies (clergyman)
Slave name
Slavery
Spirit guide
The Other Hand
Upper class
Vernacular architecture
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia House
White people
William Byrd II
William Byrd III
World view
Product details
- ISBN 9780691006086
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1989
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 awareness of the African values brought into America, however, is an automatic assumption that white traditions influenced black ones. In this view, although the institution of slaver is seen as important, blacks are not generally treated as actors nor is their "divergent culture" seen as having had a wide-ranging effect on whites. Historians working in this area generally assume two social systems in America, one black and one white, and cultural divergence between slaves and masters. It is the thesis of this book that blacks, Africans, and Afro-Americans, deeply influenced white's perceptions, values, and identity, and that although two world views existed, there was a deep symbiotic relatedness that must be explored if we are to understand either or both of them.
This exploration raises many questions and suggests many possibilities and probabilities, but it also establishes how thoroughly whites and blacks intermixed within the system of slavery and how extensive was the resulting cultural interaction.
Mechal Sobel is Associate Professor of History at the University of Haifa.
