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Trabelin' On
The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith. Abridged Paperback
Av Mechal Sobel
Häftad, 1988
867 kr
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Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous …
World They Made Together
Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Av Mechal Sobel
Häftad, 1989
514 kr
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In the recent past, enormous creative energy has gone into the study of American slavery, with major explorations of the extent to which African culture affected the culture of black Americans and with an almost totally new assessment of slave culture as Afro-American. Accompanying this new …
Teach Me Dreams
The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era
Av Mechal Sobel
Häftad, 2002
833 kr
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One day in 1698, Robert Pyle of Pennsylvania decided to buy a black slave. The next night he dreamed of a steep ladder to heaven that he felt he could not climb because he carried a black pot. In the dream, a man told him the ladder was the light of Jesus Christ and would bear any whose faith held …
Teach Me Dreams
The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era
Av Mechal Sobel
E-bok, 2021
617 kr
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One day in 1698, Robert Pyle of Pennsylvania decided to buy a black slave. The next night he dreamed of a steep ladder to heaven that he felt he could not climb because he carried a black pot. In the dream, a man told him the ladder was the light of Jesus Christ and would bear any whose faith held …
World They Made Together
Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Av Mechal Sobel
E-bok, 2021
705 kr
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In the recent past, enormous creative energy has gone into the study of American slavery, with major explorations of the extent to which African culture affected the culture of black Americans and with an almost totally new assessment of slave culture as Afro-American. Accompanying this new …
Through a Glass Darkly
Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
Av Fredrika J. Teute, Mechal Sobel m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
410 kr
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These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America’s colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early American history, these leading scholars in the …
Painting a Hidden Life
The Art of Bill Traylor
Av Mechal Sobel
Inbunden, 2009
471 kr
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Born into slavery on an Alabama plantation in 1853, Bill Traylor worked as a sharecropper for most of his life. But in 1928 he moved to Montgomery and changed his life, becoming a self-taught lyric painter of extraordinary ability and power. From 1936 to 1946, he sat on a street corner- old, ill, …
