The world they made together : black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia / Mechal Sobel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobel, Mechal.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Virginia--History--18th century.

African Americans.

Race relations.

History.

Virginia--Race relations.

Virginia.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States--Civilization--African American influences.

United States.

Civilization.

Civilization--African American influences.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xii, 364 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Princeton paperback printing.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1989.

Contents:

Part One. Attitudes Toward Time and Work. World Views in England and West Africa. English and African Perceptions of Time. Afro-American Attitudes. Shared English and African Experiences of Work. Anglo-American Attitudes. Conclusion

Part Two. Attitudes Toward Space and the Natural World. African and English Attitudes. Black and White Visions in and of America. Sharing Space Inside the Little House. Sharing Space Inside the Big House. Naming the Inhabitans. Conclusions

Part Three. Understandings of Causality and Purpose. African and English Explanations of Death and the Afterlife. The Awakening to the Spirit in Virginia. The Later Fruits of the Great Awakening. Attitudes Toward Death and the Afterlife in Virginia. Conclusions

Part Four. Coda. Coherent World Views.

Notes:

"First Princeton Paperback printing, 1989."

Reprint. Originally published: 1987.

"This book has been composed in Linotron Trump."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-352) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0691006083

9780691006086

OCLC:

541910817