Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-10-17

Total Pages: 843

ISBN-13: 0521850657

Presenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves.