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The slaveholders' dilemma: Freedom and progress in southern conservative thought, 1820-1860 (Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series) by Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012 is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Progress itself. Surprisingly, they accepted the widespread idea that freedom generated the economic, social, and moral progress they embraced as their own cause. But they nonetheless increasingly took higher ground in defense of their slave system. In consequence, they plunged into an intellectual and political cul de sac. Genovese, in exploring their efforts to fight their way out of this dilemma, argues that proslavery Southerners--theologians, political theorists.
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- Author
- Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012
- Publisher
- Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780872497832
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860 (Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series, No. 1) (1994)
- The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860 (Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series, No. 1) (1995)
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