Collected in celebration of the Institute of Early American History and Culture's 50th anniversary, these essays explore the construction and representation of self in America's colonial and early republican eras. They draw on various disciplines including anthropology, sociology and psychology.
Argues that the culture of the English in colonial America was affected by African values and culture, and identifies shared perceptions of time, space, and causality.
Born into slavery on an Alabama plantation in 1853, Bill Traylor worked as a sharecropper for most of his life. From 1936 to 1946, he sat on a Montgomery street corner and created well over 1,200 paintings. Collected and later promoted by a young Montgomery artist, Traylors work received star placement in the Corcoran Gallerys 1982 exhibition ...
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 pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created ...
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 strong; otherwise, the climber would fall. Pyle ...
The 13 essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry in to the urban contexts of literary productions. They examine how the polis - a place, a political entity - was enacted on stage from the fifth century BC to the fourth.
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