Book One: God is Not Mocked
Part 1. Of the Willing and the Obedient
Part 2. ...and the Children Brought Up
Book Two: The Rock and the Church
Part 1. Of the God of the Living
Part 2. ...and Every Man According as His Work Shall Be
Book Three: The Valley of the Shadow
Part 1. Of the Sons of Jacob
Part 2. ...and the Coat of Many Colors
Book Four: Whom God Hath Hedged In
Eugene D. Genovese was the author of several books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll, for which he won the Bancroft Prize; The Southern Tradition; and The Southern Front. 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.
"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." --The New York Times Book Review
"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."
--The New Republic
"Altogether a first-class historical work, enhanced by a good,
forthright style" --The New Yorker
"Genovese has done more than any other American historian to
life this tortured subject out of its culture-bound parochialism."
--C. Vann Woodward, The New York Review of Books
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