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A new foreword is provided by Douglas Ambrose, professor of history at Hamilton College and author of Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South.

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A seminal and original work that delves deeply into what slaveholders thought.

This book examines the domestic lives and leisure pursuits of planters in the antebellum American South.

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 a...

This book discusses how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of life on the plantation.

A seminal and original work that delves deeply into what slaveholders thought. "Outstanding . . . One of the few books that systematically explores what slaveholders thought. A great book, essential for black history courses and for intellectual studies"-- John Blassingame. "Required Reading for every serious scholar in the field." - F. N. Boney, The American Historical Review "I recommend this volume to the attention of all conservatives, ...

In one of his most important books, the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, placing them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favored these revolts and the history of slave guerrilla warfare throughout the Western Hemisphere, he connects the ideology of the revolts to the ideology of the great revolutionary movements of the late eightee...

A stimulating analysis of the society and economy in the slave south.

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When in 2003, President Bush bestowed a National Humanities Medal on Elizabeth (Betsey) Fox-Genovese, citing her as 'a defender of reason and servant of faith', he recognized the achievements of a uniquely accomplished American intellectual. Written by Betsey's husband of thirty-seven years, this title tells her story.

A leading historian examines the white Southern Christian response to slavery, military defeat, and emancipation. "A Consuming Fire" analyzes the strength, weakness, and failure of the struggle for reform and the nature and significance of Southern Christian orthodoxy and its vision of a proper social order, class structure, and race relations.

In recent years American conservatism has found a new voice. But what seems new, Eugene Genovese shows us, may in fact have very old roots. Tracing a certain strain of conservatism to its sources in a rich southern tradition, his book opens a powerful perspective on the politics of our day. As much a work of political and moral philosophy as one of history, "The Southern Tradition" reconstitutes the historical canon, re-envisions the strengths...

The most profound, learned and detailed analysis of Negro slavery to appear since World War Il.