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The World the Slaves Made

  1. God Is Not Mocked
    1. Of the Willing and the Obedient
      • On Paternalism
      • Farmers, Planters, and Overseers
      • The Hegemonic Function of the Law
      • In the Name of Humanity and the Cause of Reform
      • Our Black Family
      • A Duty and a Burden
      • Of Concubines and Horses
      • The Moment of Truth
    2. … and the Children Brought Up
      • To the Manor Born
      • De Good Massa
      • Our White Folks
      • Some Valiant Soldier Here
  2. The Rock and the Church
    1. Of the God of the Living
      • The Christian Tradition
      • Slave Religion in Hemispheric Perspective
      • Black Conversion and White Sensibility
      • Let the Dead Bury the Dead
      • The White Preachers
      • Origins of the Folk Religion
      • The Gospel in the Quarters
      • The Black Preachers
      • Religious Foundations of the Black Nation
    2. … and Every Man According to His Work Shall Be
      • Time and Work Rhythms
      • A “Lazy” People
      • The Black Work Ethic
  3. The Valley of the Shadow
    1. Of the Sons of Jacob
      • Life in the Big House
      • The Men Between
      • Men of Skill
      • Free Negroes
      • Miscegenation
      • The Language of Class and Nation
      • A Conclusion and a Preface
    2. … and the Coat of Many Colors
      • The Naming of Cats
      • The Myth of the Absent Family
      • Romances of the Field
      • Broomsticks and Orange Blossoms
      • Husbands and Fathers
      • Wives and Mothers
      • Children
      • The Old Folks
      • Hearth and Home
      • Gardens
      • Kitchens, High and Low
      • Clothes Make the Man and the Woman
      • Reading, Writing, and Prospects
      • De Big Times
  4. Whom God Hath Hedged In
    • The Slave Revolts
    • On Resistance
    • “Roast Pig is a Wonderful Delicacy, Especially When Stolen”
    • Standing Up to the Man
    • Brothers, Sisters, and No-‘counts
    • “All Negroes are Fatalists”
    • The Runaways
    • The Bright and Morning Star
  • Appendix: The Fate of Paternalism in Modern Bourgeois Society: The Case of Japan
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