Marse : a psychological portrait of the Southern slave master and his legacy of White supremacy / H.D. Kirkpatrick.

"Written by a clinical and forensic psychologist, Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the American Southern White Elite Slave Master and His Endurig Impact focuses on the White men who composed the Southern planter class. The book is a psychological autopsy of the mind and slaveholding behavior that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirkpatrick, H. D. (Hugh DeArmond), II, 1948- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2022]
Subjects:
Slaveholders > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slaveholders > Southern States > Psychology.
Plantation life > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Southern States > Psychological aspects.
Slavery > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Slave trade > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Race relations.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Psychologie.
Vie dans les plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Elite (Social sciences)
Plantation life.
Race relations.
Slave trade.
Slaveholders.
Slaveholders > Psychology.
Slavery.
Slavery > Psychological aspects.
Social conditions.
Southern States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxxvii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A brief psychological portrait of the American Southern white male elite slave master
  • The elite enslavers' core assumptions and beliefs about Black Africans
  • The surprising sketch of the white southern female elite slaveholder
  • Common and idiosyncratic enslaver psychological defense mechanisms
  • Unassailable divine defense of racist chattel slavery
  • Scriptural confabulation : the story of Noah in Genesis 9:18-27
  • The psychological dynamics of the slaveholders' fears
  • The slave masters' methodologies
  • The slave masters' laws and social policies
  • Money talks : slavery was just business
  • The throughline.