TY - GEN AB - "Slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of plantation life. However, masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants remains a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern"-- AU - Genovese, Eugene D., AU - Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, CN - E441 CY - Cambridge ; CY - New York : DA - 2011. ID - 847366 KW - Slavery KW - Plantation owners KW - Paternalism KW - Slaves KW - Plantation workers KW - Whites LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=807218 N2 - "Slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of plantation life. However, masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants remains a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern"-- PB - Cambridge University Press, PP - Cambridge ; PP - New York : PY - 2011. T1 - Fatal self-deceptionslaveholding paternalism in the Old South / TI - Fatal self-deceptionslaveholding paternalism in the Old South / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=807218 ER -