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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Detailed study of the American government's inability to deal with flagrant violations of federal laws forbidding the use of American citizens, vessels, and port facilities in the international slave trade which flourished in the 1840s and 1850s.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This classic study of antebellum Southern society demonstrates how slavery was the bedrock of the region's social order and cultural identity.
In The Political Economy of Slavery, Eugene Genovese argues that slavery gave the South a distinct class structure, political community, economy, ideology, and a set of psychological patterns. As a result, the South grew away from the rest of the nation and became increasingly unstable during the nineteenth...
11) Letters on American slavery: addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, merchant at Middlebrook, Augustaco., Va
Author
Publisher
Garrison
Pub. Date
1833.
Language
English