Fatal Self-Deception - Eugene D. Genovese,Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
-20% with code BOOKS
Shipping in 17-23 days
30-day return policy
"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 comp ... Full description
You May Also Like
Description
"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"--
More Information
| Author | Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Release year | 2012 |
| Cover type | Hardcover |
| EAN | 9781107011649 |