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Slavery in White and Black - Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order (Hardcover)
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Slavery in White and Black - Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order (Hardcover)
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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.
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