ISBN:
9780511994753
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (xvii, 232 pages)
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DDC:
306.3/620975
Schlagwort(e):
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte
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Sklaverei
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Slavery / Southern States / History / 19th century
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Plantation owners / Southern States / History / 19th century
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Paternalism / Southern States / History / 19th century
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Slaves / Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century
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Plantation workers / Southern States / History / 19th century
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Whites / Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century
Kurzfassung:
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
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511994753
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511994753
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