The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home
- ISBN-10
- 1107138051
- ISBN-13
- 9781107138056
- Series
- The Sweetness of Life
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-05
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Eugene D. Genovese
Description
American slaveholders used the wealth and leisure that slave labor provided to cultivate lives of gentility and refinement. This study provides a vivid portrait of slaveholders at home and at play as they built a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.
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