Auteur: Mechal Sobel

These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America’s colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of i …

One day in 1698, Robert Pyle of Pennsylvania decided to buy a black slave. The next night he dreamed of a steep ladder to heaven that he felt he could not climb because he carried a black pot. In the …

In 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 wi …

These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America’s colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of i …