Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
by
Christa Dierksheide
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of...