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Fatal self-deception : slaveholding paternalism in the old South /
Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family, and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2011]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family, and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness, and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also examines masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants--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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 232 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes chapter notes with bibliographical references (pages 147-210), and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139159555 1139159550 1107011647 9781107011649 9780511994753 0511994753 9781139161602 1139161601 9781139157797 1139157795 1139153048 9781139153041 1107222311 9781107222311 1283341158 9781283341158 9786613341150 6613341150 1139160605 9781139160605 1139156039 9781139156035 |