THE WORLD THE SLAVEHOLDERS MADE: Two Essays in Interpretation.
by Genovese, Eugene D,
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- Hardcover
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- Near fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (short tear to lower edge near spine, other/brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good
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About This Item
New York:: Pantheon,, (1969.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (short tear to lower edge near spine, other minor edgewear, hint of sunning to spine). First printing. In these essays, Genovese compares the New World experience of slavery with that in Europe and Africa, focusing on the place of slavery in the socioeconomic development of the Atlantic community. The second essay is entitled "The Logical Outcome of the Slaveholders' Philosophy" and it focuses on the social thought of George Fitzhugh of Port Royal, Virginia. Notes, index. xii, 274 pp.
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- Title
- THE WORLD THE SLAVEHOLDERS MADE: Two Essays in Interpretation.
- Author
- Genovese, Eugene D,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (short tear to lower edge near spine, other
- Jacket Condition
- brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1969.)
- Keywords
- american history, african american history, virginia, american south,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Slavery Abolition Reconstruction;
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