Author:
Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
Descriptionxvii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-210) and index.
Note:"Slaveholders perpetuated and reationalized a romanticized version of plantation life. However, masters' relation with white plantation laborers and servants remains a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew ont he work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and balck, suffered defacto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery ' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern" --Provided by the publisher
Note:"Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalist 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 slaveholdersperpetuated 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 ..." --provided by the publisher
