Fatal self-deception [electronic resource] : 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, white and bla...

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Main Author: Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012
Other Authors: Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Fatal Self-deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South
Format: Electronic eBook