The Mind of the Master Class

By Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Book Overview

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 ascendant 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521615623
• ISBN13: 9780521615624
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 824 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"