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Fatal Self-Deception - Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South (Hardcover, New)
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Fatal Self-Deception - Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South (Hardcover, New)
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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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