The World They Made Together
Subtitle: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: February 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780691047478
Subjects: United States - State & Local; Race relations; U.S. Local History - South Atlantic States; History - General History; History: American; Virginia; American history; Slavery & emancipation; USA; Blacks; 18th century; African Americans; History
First sentence: THOMAS LUCKMAN includes in his definition of a world view as "an encompassing system of meaning" the existence of an inner core, which he terms the sacred cosmos, an integrated mesh of central attitudes and values.