Mind Of The Master Class History And Faith In The Southern Slaveholders' Worldview

"A work brilliant but at times exasperating, always tough-minded, often mischievous, and occasionally disappointing, the 800-plus page THE MIND OF THE MASTER CLASS is impossibly rich....In this volume the authors illuminate in their characteristically energetic prose the myriad ways in which the master-slave relationship 'permeated the lives and thought' not merely of elite slaveholders but of their whole society...The Genoveses have accomplished the most difficult and intellectually imaginative feat of the historian: they have allowed us to understand the past on its own terms."Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth is the author of 'Mind Of The Master Class History And Faith In The Southern Slaveholders' Worldview', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521850650 and ISBN 0521850657.