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