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The Mind of the Master Class : History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
The Mind of the Master Class History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview Author:Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese 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 asc... more »endant 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.« less