Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas

By Christa Dierksheide

Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813936217
• ISBN13: 9780813936215
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher