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The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders Book

This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. The Civil War was not an inevitable conflict between civilizations on different paths but the crack-up of a single system, the result of people and events. This revised edition features a new introduction by the author.Read More

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  • 0393317056
  • 9780393317053
  • James Oakes
  • 4 March 1998
  • W.W. Norton
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
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