Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders by James Oakes

Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

James Oakes

307 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicat...

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