Fatal self-deception : slaveholding paternalism in the Old South / / Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
"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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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 232 p. |
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| 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"-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107011649 (hardback) 9781107605022 (paperback) 9781139157797 (electronic bk.) |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. |