Fatal Self-Deception - 9781107605022
Fatal Self-Deception Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South Author(s): Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Format: Paperback Publisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 9781107605022, 978-1107605022 Synopsis Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants - a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern.
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| Book Title | Fatal Self-Deception |
| Item Height | 234 mm |
| Item Width | 156 mm |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Subject | History |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| Type | Textbook |
| Item Weight | 390 g |
| Number Of Pages | 256 Pages |
Fatal Self-Deception Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South Author(s): Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Format: Paperback Publisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 9781107605022, 978-1107605022 Synopsis Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders’ paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters’ relations with white plantation laborers and servants – a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South’s ‘Christian slavery’ as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern.
