About this title: The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political ...
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Edition: First Published
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780521615624ISBN:0521615623
Description: Very Good Plus/Not Issued. Large 8vo 0-521-61562-3 University Press History of the south & southern slaveowners., nice clean text, 828pp. w/index. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780521615624ISBN:0521615623
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005-09-30
ISBN-13:9780521615624ISBN:0521615623
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780521615624ISBN:0521615623
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.25 by 1.77 inches. (824 pages) the mind of the master class tells of america's greatest historical tragedy. the mind of the master class tells of america's greatest historical tragedy. a great many of the slaveholding men and women were intelligent, honorable, and pious, yet, these very people, presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. the mind of the master class tells of america's greatest historical tragedy. a ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780521850650ISBN:0521850657
Description: BRAND NEW. 9.57 by 1.89 inches. (824 pages) the mind of the master class tells of america's greatest historical tragedy. the mind of the master class tells of america's greatest historical tragedy. a great many of the slaveholding men and women were intelligent, honorable, and pious, yet, these very people, presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. the mind of the master class tells of america's greatest historical tragedy. a great many ... read more
Description: New. The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. A great many of the slaveholding men and women were intelligent, honorable, and pious; yet, these very people, presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. read more
Edition: First Edition (Unstated)
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 2005
Description: Softcover. Brand new book. Tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780521615624ISBN:0521615623
Description: New. Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on slaves. The South had formidable pros... read more
"Controversial because it is misread as sympathetic to slaveholders. I think it's a little more complicated than that, much like the relationship between slave and master."
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