The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
- ISBN-10
- 1107153670
- ISBN-13
- 9781107153677
- Category
- Slaveholders
- Pages
- 828
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Author
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Description
Presenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves.
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