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The mind of the master class : history and faith in the Southern slaveholders' worldview

"The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. A great many of the slaveholding men and women were intelligent, honorable, and pious; yet, these very people, admirable in so many ways, presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. Even now, there is much to be learned from their moral and political reflections on their times--and ours"--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2005
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
History
xiii, 828 pages ; 24 cm
9780521850650, 9780521615624, 9786611108601, 0521850657, 0521615623, 6611108602
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Cradles in the storms of revolution
The inescapable past
Ancient legacies, medieval sensibility, modern men
A Christian people defend the faith
At the rubicon