The World They Made Together
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The book by Mechal Sobel suggests that a cooperative relationship between Africans and British in seventeenth and eighteenth century Virginia influenced and molded both cultures’ perceptions and values as a united religious entity. Religion in seventeenth century Virginia changed dramatically d ....
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.... The elitist’s theory on time involved the use of mechanical tools to measure the exact passage of time to insure its proper and productive utilization. This rationalization of one’s time was carried over and kept alive through the handful of elite Virginians. This is best illustrated in the way Thomas Jefferson chose to run his household. He "sought to teach proper use of time to all the whites and blacks in his extended family" (Sobel 58). Jefferson believed "it was only by a metho ....
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