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    The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860
    The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860
    The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860
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    The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860

    By Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose

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    In The Slaveholders' Dilemma, Eugene D. Genovese explores the efforts of American slaveholders to reconcile the intellectual dilemma in which they found themselves as supporters of freedom but defenders of slavery. In the American South slaveholders perceived themselves as thoroughly modern, moral men who protected human progress against the perversions of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Surprisingly, they also accepted the widespread idea that freedom generated the economic, social, and moral progress they embraced as their own cause. Nonetheless, they continued to defend slavery. In this compact but densely argued volume, Genovese rehearses the central arguments that would define the latter portion of his career, thus offering a window not only into the mind of the master class but also the mind of one of the most important scholars of the American South.

    A new foreword is provided by Douglas Ambrose, professor of history at Hamilton College and author of Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
    Release dateSep 8, 2021
    ISBN9781643362526
    The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860

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