"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"--
"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"--
Eugene D. Genovese is a retired professor of history. He served as chair of the Department of History at the University of Rochester and taught at other institutions. He also served as president of the Organization of American Historians and of The Historical Society and he was a member of the Executive Council of the American Historical Society. He is the author of nine other books, most recently Miss Betsey: A Memoir of Marriage.
Inhaltsangabe
1. 'Boisterous passions' 2. The complete household 3. Strangers within the gates 4. Loyal and loving slaves 5. The blacks' best and most faithful friend 6. Guardians of a helpless race 7. Devotion unto death.
1. 'Boisterous passions' 2. The complete household 3. Strangers within the gates 4. Loyal and loving slaves 5. The blacks' best and most faithful friend 6. Guardians of a helpless race 7. Devotion unto death.
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