Eugene D. Genovese (1930–2012)
Author of Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
About the Author
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Eugene Genovese was educated at Brooklyn College and Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1959. He has served as Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University Center in Georgia. An show more erudite, unconventional, and often unpredictable Marxist, Genovese has forced historians of the Old South---and especially of slavery---to think in new ways about important questions. Ranging over a multitude of topics, his work is concerned mainly with the relationship between economic factors, social conditions, and culture. Of his best-known work. Roll, Jordan, Roll (1974), David Brion Davis wrote: "Genovese's great gift is his ability to penetrate the minds of both slaves and masters, revealing not only how they viewed themselves and each other, but also how their contradictory perceptions interacted" (N.Y. Times Book Review). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Eugene D. Genovese
The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South (1965) 262 copies
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview (2005) 129 copies
From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (1979) 113 copies
The Southern Tradition : The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism (1994) 91 copies
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (1998) 85 copies
Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order (2008) 45 copies
Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860 (Jack N. and Addie D.… (1992) 45 copies
Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (1983) 39 copies
Plantation, town, and county; essays on the local history of American slave society (1974) — Editor — 21 copies
The slave economy of the Old South; selected essays in economic and social history (1968) — Editor — 13 copies
Marxist Perspectives Vol. 1, Nu. 3 2 copies
"Slavery ordained of God" : the southern slaveholders' view of biblical history and modern politics 2 copies
Neri d'America 2 copies
Marxist perspectives. 06 (summer 1979) — Editor — 1 copy
Marxist perspectives. 04 (winter 1978) — Director — 1 copy
Associated Works
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contributor — 133 copies
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation… (1966) — Foreword — 90 copies
For a new America; essays in history and politics from Studies on the left, 1959-1967 (1970) — Contributor — 18 copies
In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History (1986) — Contributor — 13 copies
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- Legal name
- Genovese, Eugene Dominick
- Birthdate
- 1930-05-19
- Date of death
- 2012-09-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Places of residence
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Education
- Brooklyn College (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD) - Occupations
- historian
professor
editor - Relationships
- Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (wife)
- Organizations
- Organization of American Historians
Rutgers University
University of Rochester
United States Army (1953-1954)
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Historical Society (Founder) (show all 7)
Sir George Williams University, Montreal QC Canada - Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1976)
Richard M. Weaver Award (1993) - Short biography
- The New York Times said in his obituary: Eugene D. Genovese was a prizewinning historian who challenged conventional thinking on slavery in the American South by stressing its paternalism as he traveled a personal intellectual journey from Marxism to conservative Catholicism. His most famous book, “Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made,” won the Bancroft Prize for American history writing in 1975.
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- 40
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- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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Based on extensive exploration of oral History and other records from slaves, slaveholders and observers of slavery in the US, what began as an exploration of how slaves influenced the world of slaveholders ended up, as the title hints, as a record of the witness that preachers but specially slave converts gave of their faith and its power to change people and societies.