The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' WorldviewCambridge University Press, 17 d’oct. 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 an enormity and inflicted horrors on their 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. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture. |
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... political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to ...
... political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to ...
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... political discourse. Notwithstanding the aspersions cast by hostile Northerners, who harbored their own share of amateur poets, educated South— erners recognized and admired superior poetic talent. Many were steeped in the ancient poets ...
... political discourse. Notwithstanding the aspersions cast by hostile Northerners, who harbored their own share of amateur poets, educated South— erners recognized and admired superior poetic talent. Many were steeped in the ancient poets ...
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... politics and ideology: Thomas Roderick Dew on history and political economy; Thomas Cooper and George Tucker on political economy; Nathaniel Beverley Tucker on political theory; Jasper Adams, R. H. Rivers, and William A. Smith on moral ...
... politics and ideology: Thomas Roderick Dew on history and political economy; Thomas Cooper and George Tucker on political economy; Nathaniel Beverley Tucker on political theory; Jasper Adams, R. H. Rivers, and William A. Smith on moral ...
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... political principles. The French Revolution's radicalism and the Enlightenment's materialist philosophies and utopian visions appeared ever less plausible as embodiments of liberty and political virtue.IO The decline of the Federalist ...
... political principles. The French Revolution's radicalism and the Enlightenment's materialist philosophies and utopian visions appeared ever less plausible as embodiments of liberty and political virtue.IO The decline of the Federalist ...
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... political philosophy is to us even more dread— ful than the contemplation of its bloody history; for it speaks of a dark future, yet unread.”13 Responding to the Revolution's detractors in 1820, William Somerville, a Virginian resident ...
... political philosophy is to us even more dread— ful than the contemplation of its bloody history; for it speaks of a dark future, yet unread.”13 Responding to the Revolution's detractors in 1820, William Somerville, a Virginian resident ...
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The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders ... Elizabeth Fox-Genovese,Eugene D. Genovese Previsualització limitada - 2005 |
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders ... Elizabeth Fox-Genovese,Eugene D. Genovese Previsualització no disponible - 2005 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 189 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Pàgina 231 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it.
Pàgina 453 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Pàgina 443 - ... and thou were the truest lover, of a sinful man, that ever loved woman; and thou wert the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou wert the meekest man, and the gentlest, that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Pàgina 728 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Pàgina 376 - While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the Capitol.
Pàgina 569 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.
Pàgina 147 - You have deprived him of all moral restraint; you have tempted him to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, just enough to perfect him in wickedness; you have opened his eyes to his nakedness; you have armed his nature against the hand that has fed, that has clothed him, that has cherished him in sickness, — that hand which, before he became a pupil of your school, he had been accustomed to press with respectful affection.
Referències a aquest llibre
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s 1890s Gregory D. Smithers Previsualització no disponible - 2008 |