Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012.
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-210) and index.
- 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.
- 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 –Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
- Slavery — Southern States — History — 19th century.
- Plantation owners — Southern States — History — 19th century.
- Paternalism — Southern States — History — 19th century.
- Slaves — Southern States — Social conditions — 19th century.
- Plantation workers — Southern States — History — 19th century.
- Whites — Southern States — Social conditions — 19th century.
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