Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese

Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese

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Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic 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...

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