Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.

Pantheon, NY [1974]. 'I hope I have shown that the slaves made an indispensable contribution to the development of black culture and black national consciousness as well as to American nationality as a whole. But, knowing that the ambiguity of the black experience as a national question lends the evidence to different readings, I have chosen to stay close to my primary responsibility: to tell the story of slave life as carefully and accurately as possible. Many years of studying the astonishing effort of black people to live decently as human beings even in slavery has convinced me that no theoretical advance suggested in their experience could ever deserve as much attention as that demanded by their demonstration of the beauty and power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression.' Hard Cover. xxii, 823 pages, indexes. Brown cloth, spine a bit faded, ink inscription; good+. stock#20969/house.