class and race in the Southern slaveholders' new world order /
First Statement of Responsibility
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese.
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xv, 314 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The impending collapse of capitalism -- Hewers of wood, drawers of water -- Travelers to the South, Southerners abroad -- The squaring of circles -- The appeal to social theory -- Perceptions and realities.
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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. - Publisher.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Slavery in White and Black.
International Standard Book Number
9780521897006
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Capitalism-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Industrialization-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Labor-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Slavery and the church-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
Slavery-- Moral and ethical aspects-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
Slavery-- Southern States-- Justification.
Working class-- United States-- Social conditions-- 19th century.
Capitalism-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Capitalism.
Christentum-- Sklaverei-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
esclavage-- Etats-Unis-- sud-- 19e s.
esclavage-- justification (philosophie)-- Etats-Unis-- sud-- 19e s.
esclavage-- système social-- Etats-Unis-- sud-- 19e s.
Industrialization-- Social aspects.
Intellectual life.
Labor-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Labor.
Politische Ideen-- Südstaaten (USA)-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Rechtfertigung
Rechtfertigung-- Sklaverei-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Sklaverei
Sklaverei-- Christentum-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Sklaverei-- Rechtfertigung-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Sklaverei-- Südstaaten (USA)-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Slavernij.
Slavery and the church-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
Slavery and the church.
Slavery-- Justification.
Slavery-- Moral and ethical aspects-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
Slavery-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Slavery-- Southern States-- Justification.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Slavery.
Sociale klassen.
Working class-- Social conditions.
Working class-- United States-- Social conditions-- 19th century.