The ruling race
Subtitle: a history of American slaveholders
By: by James Oakes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Slaveholders -- Southern States; Slavery -- Southern States; Southern States -- Social conditions
First sentence: In 1701, John Saffin, an aging Boston merchant and slaveholder, lifted his pen in anger and produced one of the first sustained defenses of slavery ever published in the American colonies.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 287-295.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. The Colonial Legacy; title: 1.  Revolutionary Slaveholders; title: Part II.  The Market Culture; title: 2.  Master-class Pluralism; title: 3.  The Slaveholders' Pilgrimage; title: 4.  The Convenient Sin; title: 5.  Freedom and Bondage; title: Part III.  Plantations, Plebians, and Patricians; title: 6.  Factories in the Fields; title: 7.  Masters of Tradition; title: Epilogue.  The Slaveholders' Revolution; title: Appendix, Notes and Bibliography; title: Appendix.  Sample of Slaveholders from the 1850 Census; title: Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography; title: Bibliography; title: Index