Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Fatal Self-Deception

Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of life on the plantation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781107605022
• ISBN-10: 1107605024
• Artikelnr.: 33624012

Autorenporträt

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.