The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview

by Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist (free-labor) society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521615623

ISBN13:9780521615624

Release Date:October 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:824 Pages

Weight:2.65 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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19th Century Abolition Christian Books & Bibles Church History Churches & Church Leadership Discrimination & Racism History Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Religion

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