03811nam 22007692 450 991045763630332120220208193937.01-139-15304-81-107-22231-11-283-34115-897866133411501-139-16060-50-511-99475-31-139-16160-11-139-15603-91-139-15779-51-139-15955-0(CKB)2550000000065926(EBL)807218(OCoLC)767502516(SSID)ssj0000551285(PQKBManifestationID)11318795(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551285(PQKBWorkID)10525614(PQKB)11536327(UkCbUP)CR9780511994753(MiAaPQ)EBC807218(Au-PeEL)EBL807218(CaPaEBR)ebr10514122(CaONFJC)MIL334115(EXLCZ)99255000000006592620141103d2011|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFatal self-deception slaveholding paternalism in the Old South /Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2011.1 online resource (xvii, 232 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-60502-4 1-107-01164-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Boisterous passions'; 2. The complete household; 3. Strangers within the gates; 4. Loyal and loving slaves; 5. The blacks' best and most faithful friend; 6. Guardians of a helpless race; 7. Devotion unto death.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 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.SlaverySouthern StatesHistory19th centuryPlantation ownersSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryPaternalismSouthern StatesHistory19th centurySlavesSouthern StatesSocial conditions19th centuryPlantation workersSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryWhite peopleSouthern StatesSocial conditions19th centurySlaveryHistoryPlantation ownersHistoryPaternalismHistorySlavesSocial conditionsPlantation workersHistoryWhite peopleSocial conditions306.3/620975Genovese Eugene D.1930-2012,121460Fox-Genovese Elizabeth1941-2007,UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910457636303321Fatal self-deception1903618UNINA