Part 1 Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World The Slaves Made

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Eugene D. Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World The Slaves Made begins with book one and the title of "God Is Not Mocked."  In part one, of book one, the issue of paternalism in the nineteenth century American South is detailed.  In the book, Genovese explains, "American slavery subordinated one race to another and thereby rendered its fundamental class relationships more complex and ambiguous; but they remained class relationships."  Class power and defining paternalism in the nineteenth seem to be the core of Roll, Jordan, Roll and Genovesse's arguments seem to need further historical explanation in the upcoming chapters.

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