Cradles in the storms of revolution -- The inescapable past -- Ancient legacies, medieval sensibility, modern men -- A Christian people defend the faith -- At the rubicon
Summary
Presenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-792) and index