The Mind of the Master Class

The Mind of the Master Class
Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 843
Release: 2005-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521850657

Presenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves.