Fatal self-deception : slaveholding paternalism in the old South /
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 r...
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Cambridge University Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- "Boisterous Passions" ; Edmund Burke's cautionary tale
- Morals
- Apprehensive parents
- Young gentlemen in fields and stores
- Weighed in the balances
- The complete household ; Paternal authority
- Property in man?
- Household problems
- Slave sales
- Strangers within the gates ; Sundry white servants
- Governesses and tutors
- Hired laborers
- Overseers and their families
- Loyal and loving slaves ; Masterful forbearance
- Mutual dependency and manipulation
- Souls
- Grief and money
- Tests of faith
- Dangerous wishes
- 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
- Guardians of a helpless race ; Vindication from the Free States
- Abolitionism indicted for racism
- Persistent fears of Black extermination
- White recognition of Black achievement
- An incongruity
- 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.