num_pages: 824
description: Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ("free-labor") society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action.
language: English
title: The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
titlecomplete: The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
genres: History, American History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 53
publisher: Cambridge University Press