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- catalog abstract "The Southern Awakenings were a climax to a long period of intensive racial interaction, and, as a result, the culture of Americans--blacks and whites--was deeply affected by African values and perceptions. The interpenetration of Western and African values took place very early, beginning with the large-scale importation of Africans into the South in the last decades of the seventeenth century. In spite of a significant interpenetration of values between the two races, the whites were usually unaware of their own change in this process. Nevertheless, in perceptions of time, in esthetics, in approaches to ecstatic religious experience and to understanding the Holy Spirit, in ideas of the afterworld and of the proper ways to honor the spirits of the dead, African influence was deep and far-reaching.".
- catalog contributor b1965423.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization African American influences.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia Race relations.".
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description "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 -- Conclusions -- 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 inhabitants -- Conclusions -- 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 -- Coda. Coherent world views.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 313-352.".
- catalog description "The Southern Awakenings were a climax to a long period of intensive racial interaction, and, as a result, the culture of Americans--blacks and whites--was deeply affected by African values and perceptions. The interpenetration of Western and African values took place very early, beginning with the large-scale importation of Africans into the South in the last decades of the seventeenth century. In spite of a significant interpenetration of values between the two races, the whites were usually unaware of their own change in this process. Nevertheless, in perceptions of time, in esthetics, in approaches to ecstatic religious experience and to understanding the Holy Spirit, in ideas of the afterworld and of the proper ways to honor the spirits of the dead, African influence was deep and far-reaching.".
- catalog extent "xii, 364 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691006083 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0691047472 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization African American influences.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia".
- catalog subject "975.5/00496073 19".
- catalog subject "African Americans Virginia History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "E185.93.V8 S64 1987".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 -- Conclusions -- 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 inhabitants -- Conclusions -- 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 -- Coda. Coherent world views.".
- catalog title "The world they made together : Black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia / Mechal Sobel.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".