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Author Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007.

Title Slavery in White and Black : class and race in the Southern slaveholders' new world order / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 314 pages)
Contents The impending collapse of capitalism -- Hewers of wood, drawers of water -- Travelers to the South, Southerners abroad -- The squaring of circles -- The appeal to social theory -- Perceptions and realities
Summary Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals -- "Slavery in the Abstract," which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital question: to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book. - Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Southern States -- Justification
Slavery and the church -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Labor -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Industrialization -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Southern States -- Justification.
Slavery and the church -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Labor -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Capitalism
Industrialization -- Social aspects
Intellectual life
Labor
Slavery and the church
Slavery -- Justification
Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects
Working class -- Social conditions
Rechtfertigung
Sklaverei
Slavernij.
Sociale klassen.
Sklaverei -- Christentum -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Rechtfertigung -- Sklaverei -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Christentum -- Sklaverei -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Sklaverei -- Südstaaten (USA) -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Politische Ideen -- Südstaaten (USA) -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Sklaverei -- Rechtfertigung -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
esclavage -- système social -- Etats-Unis -- sud -- 19e s.
esclavage -- justification (philosophie) -- Etats-Unis -- sud -- 19e s.
esclavage -- Etats-Unis -- sud -- 19e s.
SUBJECT Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Southern States
United States
USA -- Südstaaten
Zuidelijke staten.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012.
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