Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

by Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Book Overview

Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family, and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107605024
• ISBN13: 9781107605022
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"