I don’t think I’d seen this before, but apparently, Eugene Genovese died late last month.

That’s a real bummer. He was a Marxist and sometimes leftist (don’t make the mistake of thinking Marxist thought is necessarily leftist) historian of the American South and of slavery in the American South. Even when he became, in some ways, more conservative (he became quite infatuated with the Southern Agrarians), he never stopped seeing the influence of class structures on society.

Anyway… Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. I had to read it in college. It’s awesome. You should read it, too.