Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese — book cover

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

by Eugene D. Genovese

Anisfield-Wolf Book · 1975 · Winner

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Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction	1975	Winner

About the Author

Eugene D. GenoveseAmerican

Eugene Dominic Genovese (1930-2012) was an American historian renowned for his Marxist analysis of slavery and the American South, most notably in his Bancroft Prize-winning book Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974), which examined paternalistic relations between planters and slaves.

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