Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

Author/Contributor(s):	Oakes, James
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	01/17/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Shattering the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy, historian James Oakes reveals them as having been just as entrepreneurial as their northern counterparts, committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. Oakes's pathbreaking analysis shows the Civil War as not a conflict of separate ideologies, but instead the split of a single system.