The world the slaveholders made: two essays in interpretation

by Genovese, Eugene D.

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Full title :The world the slaveholders made : two essays in interpretation / Eugene D. Genovese.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1970.

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Publisher(s):Allen Lane The Penguin Press
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1970.

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Copyright Eugene D. Genovese, 1969. First published in the United States of America in 1969 by Pantheon Books, New York ..."--Title page verso

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Description:274 pages ; : 23 cm

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ISBN:0713901691, 9780713901696, 0394716760, 9780394716763
oclc:ocm24843304
LC Classification:HT1048
Dewey Decimal:306.3620973

The American slave systems in world perspective. Preliminary observations on Afro-American slavery and the rise of capitalism ; The slave systems and their European antecedents ; Class and race -- The logical outcome of the slaveholders' philosophy : an exposition, interpretation, and critique of the social thought of George Fitzhugh of Port Royal, Virginia. Preliminary observations on a man and his world ; The slaveholders' philosophy ; The critique of capitalism ; The defence of slavery ; Last thoughts.