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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011

1 online resource (xvii, 232 p.)

ISBN 9781139157797 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781107011649 (hardback)

ISBN 9781107605022 (paperback)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: 1. ’Boisterous passions’; 2. The complete household; 3. Strangers within the gates; 4. Loyal and loving slaves; 5. The blacks’ best and most faithful friend; 6. Guardians of a helpless race; 7. Devotion unto death.

"Slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of plantation life. However, masters’ relations with white plantation laborers and servants remains a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South’s ’Christian slavery’ as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern"-- Provided by publisher..

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)767502516