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307 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393317053
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 January 1998
Description
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 dedicat...
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307 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393317053
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 January 1998
Description
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 dedicat...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings