Fatal self-deception [electronic resource] : slaveholding paternalism in the Old South / Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
2011
E441 .G39 2011
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Fatal self-deception [electronic resource] : slaveholding paternalism in the Old South / Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
ISBN
9781107011649
9781107605022
9781139157797 (electronic book)
9781107605022
9781139157797 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 232 p.
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E441 .G39 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/620975
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Boisterous passions'; 2. The complete household; 3. Strangers within the gates; 4. Loyal and loving slaves; 5. The blacks' best and most faithful friend; 6. Guardians of a helpless race; 7. Devotion unto death.