{"product_id":"roll-jordan-roll-isbn-9780394716527","title":"Roll, Jordan, Roll","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA testament to the power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression, this landmark history of slavery in the South challenged conventional views by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisplaying keen insight into the minds of both enslaved persons and slaveholders, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that enslaved persons forced their owners to acknowledge their humanity through culture, music, and religion. He covers a vast range of subjects, from slave weddings and funerals, to language, food, clothing, and labor, and places particular emphasis on religion as both a major battleground for psychological control and a paradoxical source of spiritual strength.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA winner of the Bancroft Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBook One: God is Not Mocked\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. Of the Willing and the Obedient\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. ...and the Children Brought Up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Two: The Rock and the Church\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. Of the God of the Living\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. ...and Every Man According as His Work Shall Be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Three: The Valley of the Shadow\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. Of the Sons of Jacob\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. ...and the Coat of Many Colors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Four: Whom God Hath Hedged In\"The most profound, learned, and detailed analysis of slavery to appear since World War II. It covers an incredible range of topics and offers fresh insights on  nearly every page. . . . Genovese's great gift is his ability to penetrate the minds of both slaves and masters, revealing not only how they viewed themselves and each other, but also how their contradictory perceptions interacted.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Without modern peer as an historical narrative, as a sensitive functional analysis of a major region and period of American society in general, and the Afro-American community in particular.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Altogether a first-class historical work, enhanced by a good, forthright style\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Genovese  has done more than any other American historian to life this tortured subject out of its culture-bound parochialism.\" --C. Vann Woodward, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugene D. Genovese\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eRoll, Jordan, Roll\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the Bancroft Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Front\u003c\/i\u003e. Genovese was known for his Marxist perspective in regards to the study of power, class, and race relations in during plantation life in the old south.  Genovese passed away in 2012.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300811264229,"sku":"NP9780394716527","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394716527.jpg?v=1767735887","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/roll-jordan-roll-isbn-9780394716527","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}