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Fatal self-deception : slaveholding paternalism in the Old South

Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-, Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007

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\"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\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Slavery Southern States History 19th century. / Plantation owners Southern States History 19th century. / Paternalism Southern States History 19th century. / Slaves Southern States Social conditions 19th century. / Plantation workers Southern States History 19th century. / Whites Southern States Social conditions 19th century.
• ISBN: 9781107011649, 1107011647, 9781107605022, 1107605024

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