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The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview

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 | #830256 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2005-10-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x1.77 x6.14l,2.55 | File type: PDF | 824 pages

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||8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Understanding over polemicizing|By James A. Sullivan|The Mind of the Master Class is a tour de force, a kind of Wagnerian opus that brings the Southern elites into focus. We learn what they thought about; Scripture, the French Revolution. the classics and yes, their own slave owning. Instead of viewing them as merely a plague in history, we follow their opinions in such detai| |"In exploring their terrible and complex subject with honesty and sympathy, the authors have grappled heroically with the ambiguity at the heart of history and in the heart of man."
-The Atlantic Monthly

"Extraordinarily erudite. What is most

Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on 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 philoso...

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