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1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Cover; Fatal Self-Deception Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South; Advance Praise for Fatal Self-Deception; Title; Copyright; For Deborah Ann Symonds Gifted Scholar and Wonderful Friend and For her partner, Melissa Cano, and their children, Sarah and Sam; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Manuscript Collections; Introduction; 1 "Boisterous Passions"; Edmund Burke's Cautionary Tale; Morals; Apprehensive Parents; Young Gentlemen in Fields and Stores; Weighed in the Balances; 2 The Complete Household; Paternal Authority; Property in Man?; Household Problems; Slave Sales. |
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3 Strangers within the GatesSundry White Servants; Governesses and Tutors; Hired Laborers; Overseers and Their Families; 4 Loyal and Loving Slaves; Masterful Forbearance; Mutual Dependency and Manipulation; Souls; Grief and Money; Tests of Faith; Dangerous Wishes; 5 The Blacks' Best and Most Faithful Friend; A Stagnant Race; Black Incapacity; Black Thoughts, According to White Critics; Views of Emancipation; News from Africa; The Fate of the Indians; The Specter of Barbarism; 6 Guardians of a Helpless Race; Vindication from the Free States; Abolitionism Indicted for Racism. |
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Persistent Fears of Black ExterminationWhite Recognition of Black Achievement; An Incongruity; 7 Devotion unto Death; Armed Slaves: Friends or Foes?; Concern for White Women; Mounting Crises; Body Servants in War and Propaganda; The Confederacy Opts for Black Troops; Notes; Introduction; 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; Index. |
| Summary |
Discusses how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of life on the plantation. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Plantation owners -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Plantation owners. |
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Paternalism -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Paternalism. |
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Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Social conditions. |
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Plantation workers -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Plantation workers. |
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White people -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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White people. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Genovese, Eugene D. Fatal Self-Deception : Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9781107011649 |
| ISBN |
9781139159555 |
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1139159550 |
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1107011647 |
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9781107011649 |
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9780511994753 (electronic book) |
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0511994753 (electronic book) |
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9781139161602 (electronic book) |
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1139161601 (electronic book) |
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9781139157797 (e-book) |
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1139157795 (e-book) |
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9781107605022 |
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1107605024 |
| Standard No. |
9786613341150 |
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