The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521850650)

Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ("free-labor") society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action.

Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese
ISBN-10: 0521850657
ISBN-13: 9780521850650
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2005
Pages: 824
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.89lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.68w x 1.94d

Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 11/01/2005 pg. 29
New York Review of Books 05/25/2006 pg. 34
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2006 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended
Choice 10/01/2006 pg. 358
Christian Century 05/03/2011 pg. 34