Fatal self-deception: slaveholding paternalism in the Old South

"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, whi...

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Main Author: Genovese, Eugene D. 1930-2012 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press 2011
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Online Access:KUBA1
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"--
Physical Description:xvii, 232 p

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