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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Table of Contents:
- 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.