{"product_id":"the-world-they-made-together-black-and-white-values-in-eighteenthcentury-virginia","title":"The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the recent past  enormous creative energy has gone into the study of American slavery  with major explorations of the extent to which African culture affected the culture of black Americans and with an almost totally new assessment of slave culture as Afro-American. Accompanying this new awareness of the African values brought into America  however  is an automatic assumption that white traditions influenced black ones. In this view  although the institution of slaver is seen as important  blacks are not generally treated as actors nor is their \"divergent culture\" seen as having had a wide-ranging effect on whites. Historians working in this area generally assume two social systems in America  one black and one white  and cultural divergence between slaves and masters.  It is the thesis of this book that blacks  Africans  and Afro-Americans  deeply influenced whites perceptions  values  and identity  and that although two world views existed  there was a deep symbiotic relatedness that must be explored if we are to understand either or both of them. This exploration raises many questions and suggests many possibilities and probabilities  but it also establishes how thoroughly whites and blacks intermixed within the system of slavery and how extensive was the resulting cultural interaction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959951421493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691047472","price":114.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691047478.jpg?v=1770642787","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-world-they-made-together-black-and-white-values-in-eighteenthcentury-virginia","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}