Roll, Jordan, Roll
by Eugene D. Genovese · first published 1974
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This landmark history of slavery in the South -- a winner of the Bancroft Prize -- challenged conventional views of slaves by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society. Rather than emphasizing the cruelty and degradation of slavery, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that slaves forced their owners to acknowledge their humanity through culture, music, and religion. Not merely passive victims, the slaves in this account actively engaged with the paternalism of slaveholding culture in ways that supported their self-respect and aspira
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If you want a more personal book around slaves and slave-holders, which may be best since it seems one of the large problems of today is a general lack of theory of mind, I'd recommend Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll.
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