Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860

by Eugene D. Genovese

Book Overview

Eugene Genovese explores the efforts of American slaveholders to reconcile the intellectual dilemma in which they found themselves as supporters of freedom but defenders of slavery. In The Slaveholders' Dilemma, Genovese argues that the spokespeople for the Southern position demonstrated much greater intellectual talent than has been recognized in the past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872499952
• ISBN13: 9780872499959
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.7"