Slavery in White and Black

by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese

Book Overview

Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521721814
• ISBN13: 9780521721813
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"