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Book · 1974 · Nonfiction

Roll, Jordan, Roll

The World the Slaves Made
Eugene D. Genovese
Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 823 pages
★ 6.2 editorial score

Life on the plantation seen from the slave quarters outward: Genovese shows how the enslaved turned the master's claim of paternal care into leverage and made Christianity mean what the master never intended.

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1974Depicts 19th century

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