Slavery in White and Black : class and race in the Southern slaveholders' new world order

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Label

Slavery in White and Black : class and race in the Southern slaveholders' new world order

Title remainder

class and race in the Southern slaveholders' new world order

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese

Creator

• Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007

Contributor

• Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012

Subject

• History
• Industrialization -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Industrialization -- United States -- Social aspects -- 19th century
• Labor -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Slavery -- Southern States -- Justification
• Slavery and the church -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

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 emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals -- "Slavery in the Abstract," which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital question: to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book. - Publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 306.3/620775
• 306.3620975

Index

index present

LC call number

E449

LC item number

.F77 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography