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020			_a9780511994753 (ebook)
020			_z9781107011649 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aE441 _b.G39 2011
082	0	0	_a306.3/620975 _222
100	1		_aGenovese, Eugene D., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFatal Self-Deception : _bSlaveholding Paternalism in the Old South / _cEugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource (256 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aSlaveholders 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 how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants - 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 and modern.
700	1		_aFox-Genovese, Elizabeth, _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107011649
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511994753
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38280 _d38280