The mind of the master class: history and faith in the Southern slaveholders' worldview

Presenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves.

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Main Authors: Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth 1941-2007 (Author), Genovese, Eugene D. 1930-2012 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
Edition:1. publ.
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Summary:Presenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves.
Physical Description:XIII, 828 S.
ISBN:0521850657
0521615623
9780521850650
9780521615624

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