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020 $a9781107011649 (hardback)
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020 $a9781107605022 (paperback)
020 $a1107605024 (paperback)
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050 00 $aE441$b.G39 2011
082 00 $a306.3/620975$222
100 1 $aGenovese, Eugene D.,$d1930-2012.
245 10 $aFatal self-deception :$bslaveholding paternalism in the Old South /$cEugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axvii, 232 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of plantation life. However, masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants remains a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern"--Provided by publisher.
520 $a"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 D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness, and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants, a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
500 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. 'Boisterous passions'; 2. The complete household; 3. Strangers within the gates; 4. Loyal and loving slaves; 5. The blacks' best and most faithful friend; 6. Guardians of a helpless race; 7. Devotion unto death.
650 0 $aSlavery$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPlantation owners$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPaternalism$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlaves$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
650 0 $aPlantation workers$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWhites$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
700 1 $aFox-Genovese, Elizabeth,$d1941-2007.