TY  - BOOK
AU  - Genovese,Eugene D.
AU  - Fox-Genovese,Elizabeth
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Fatal self-deception: slaveholding paternalism in the Old South 
AV  - E441 .G39 2011
U1  - 306.3/620975 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Plantation owners
KW  - Paternalism
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Plantation workers
KW  - Whites
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=807218
ER  -