Der Geist der Herrenklasse: Geschichte und Glaube in der Weltanschauung der Sklavenhalter im Süden

Author/Contributor(s):	Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth ; Genovese, Eugene D
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	10/17/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ("free-labor") society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action.