| Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730 1810 Contributor(s): Sidbury, James (Author), James, Sidbury (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521598605 ISBN-13: 9780521598606 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: During the summer of 1800, slaves in and around Richmond, Virginia, conspired to overthrow slavery. This book uses Gabriel's Conspiracy, and the evidence produced during its repression, to expose the processes through which Virginians of African descent built an oppositional culture. Here is an altogether fascinating, alternative interpretation of the Virginia that was home to many of our Founding Fathers. Line diagrams. Maps. Tables. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) |
| Dewey: 975.545 |
| LCCN: 96051787 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: James Sidbury's Ploughshares into Swords places the enslaved population of Virginia squarely within the emerging Atlantic world culture--of the market economy, of urban culture, of Virginia's rapidly changing religious culture. Sidbury stresses the way black Virginians appropriated white cultural forms, transformed their meaning, and in the process created symbols of black liberation and a culture that had autonomous features even though it drew from the larger culture. His skillfull interweaving of these two separate strands of argument provides rare insights into the entire process of identity formation and creolization. |