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Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order

Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals-- “Slavery in the Abstract,” which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book.
Language
English
Pages
332
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 2008
ISBN 13
9780521897006

Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals-- “Slavery in the Abstract,” which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book.
Language
English
Pages
332
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 2008
ISBN 13
9780521897006

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