The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
By Unknown Author.
Description
"A sweeping and spirited history of Southern slaveholders."―David Herbert Donald This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. The Civil War was n...
ISBN(s)
0393317056, 9780393317053
