Volume 21, Number 15 · October 3, 1974
Seeing Slavery Whole
By C. Vann Woodward
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
by Eugene D. Genovese
Pantheon, 823 pp., $17.50
We have had many books on southern slavery, some good, some bad, but never one quite like this. Good, bad, or indifferent, the others have usually been shaped by hereditary predispositions toward guilt or indignation, defensiveness, or reproachfulness. Anglo-American or Afro-American, northern or southern, radical or conservative, historians of slavery have been predominantly Protestant and middle class. Those who were not have heretofore felt impelled to mount some psychological, sociological, or economic thesis and foster some revisionary reinterpretation.
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