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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      27 October 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511815416
      9780521897006
      9780521721813
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815416
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 332 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 332 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Colonial American History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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    Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals - 'Slavery in the Abstract', which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital question: to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book.

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    'By forcing us to confront the historical ubiquity of slavery and the revolutionary novelty of wage labour, the Genoveses invite us to see the Civil War as a struggle over capitalism at least as much as a struggle over slavery.'

    Source: London Review of Books

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