Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South

By Lacy K. Ford

Book Overview

A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019511809X
• ISBN13: 9780195118094
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"