Elizabeth Fox Genovese: 3 books
Fatal Self-Deception
Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
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...
The Mind of the Master Class
History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
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...
Within the Plantation Household
Black and White Women of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues...