Description |
392 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
pt. 1. From religion to slavery. -- Reinhold Niebuhr : an American Jeremiah -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Religion and American culture -- The other Zion : American Jews and the meritocratic experiment -- The slave trade and the Jews -- Jews and Blacks in America -- pt. 2. Historians of two generations. -- The rebel : C. Vann Woodward -- A tribute to Woodward -- Southern comfort : Eugene D. Genovese -- pt. 3. Origins. -- At the heart of slavery -- Slaves in Islam -- A big business -- The triumph of the country -- The labyrinth of slavery -- The significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 -- The benefit of slavery -- Capitalism, abolitionism, and hegemony -- pt. 4. The violence of slavery as experienced. -- The white world of Frederick Douglass -- Life and death in slavery -- The ends of slavery -- White wives and slave mothers -- Terror in Mississippi -- pt. 5. From the construction of race to the American dilemma and the feminist revolution. -- Constructing race : a reflection -- The culmination of racial polarities and prejudice -- The American dilemma -- The other revolution. |
Provenance |
Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus. |
Subject |
Slavery.
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Slavery. |
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Slavery -- United States.
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United States. |
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Slavery -- Book reviews.
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Genre/Form |
Book reviews.
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Subject |
Slave trade.
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Slave trade. |
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Slavery and Judaism.
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Slavery and Judaism. |
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Slavery and Islam.
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Slavery and Islam. |
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Religion and culture.
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Religion and culture. |
Genre/Form |
Book reviews.
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Reviews.
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Reviews.
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ISBN |
0300088140 alkaline paper |
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9780300088144 alkaline paper |
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