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The world they made together: black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia

Mechal Sobel

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Frontmatter
List of Illustrations (page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xi)
Introduction (page 3)
Part One. Attitudes Toward Time and Work
- 1. World Views in England and West Africa (page 15)
- 2. English and African Perceptions of Time (page 21)
- 3. Afro-American Attitudes (page 30)
- 4. Shared English and African Experiences of Work (page 44)
- 5. Anglo-American Attitudes (page 54)
- 6. Conclusions (page 64)
Part Two. Attitudes Toward Space and the Natural World
- 7. African and English Attitudes (page 71)
- 8. Black and White Visions in and of America (page 79)
- 9. Sharing Space Inside the Little House (page 100)
- 10. Sharing Space Inside the Big House (page 127)
- 11. Naming the Inhabitants (page 154)
- 12. Conclusions (page 165)
Part Three. Understandings of Causality and Purpose
- 13. African and English Explanations of Death and the Afterlife (page 171)
- 14. The Awakening to the Spirit in Virginia (page 178)
- 15. The Later Fruits of the Great Awakening (page 204)
- 16. Attitudes Toward Death and the Afterlife in Virginia (page 214)
- 17. Conclusions (page 226)
Part Four. Coda
- 18. Coherent World View (page 233)
Notes (page 243)
Bibliography (page 313)
Index (page 353)

Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
TR	59 (1993): 138-146	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2934879
AHR	94.4 (Oct. 1989): 1175-1176	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1906757
JSH	55.3 (Aug. 1989): 467-468	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2208412
WMQ	46.2 (Apr. 1989): 394-396	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920268
RAH	17.1 (Mar. 1989): 22-28	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2703121
JAH	75.3 (Dec. 1988): 899-900	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1901564
AJS	94.3 (Nov. 1988): 681-683	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2780272
NCHR	65.4 (Oct. 1988): 494	http://www.jstor.org/stable/23520783
RKHS	87.1 ({Winter 1989): 67-69	http://www.jstor.org/stable/23381201
JAMST	23.1 (Apr. 1989): 187-188	http://www.jstor.org/stable/27555173
GHQ	72.3 (Fall 1988): 542-543	http://www.jstor.org/stable/40581867
VMHB	97.1 (Jan. 1989): 97-99	http://www.jstor.org/stable/4249050
WIP	24. 2/3 (Summer - Autumn 1989): 187-189	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1181270
JIH	19.4 (Spring 1989): 691-693	http://www.jstor.org/stable/203981
JSocH	23.2 (Winter 1989): 391-393	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3787889
JAEH	11.4 (Summer 1992): 92-96	http://www.jstor.org/stable/27500991
JER	8.2 (Summer 1988): 183-184	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3123812
AAAPSS	507 (Jan. 1990): 165	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1047560
AJAS	8.1 (Jul. 1989): 62-69	http://www.jstor.org/stable/41053523
JBRS	28.4 (Oct. 1989): 411-418	http://www.jstor.org/stable/175438

Citable Link

Published: 1989

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN(s)

9781400820498 (ebook)
9780691047478 (hardcover)
9780691006086 (paper)

Subject

American: Colonial to 1789