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The mind of the master class

history and faith in the Southern slaveholders' worldview

by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese

2005 828 pages eng

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 a…

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