The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview Eirik Westcoat 2022 Texas Institute of Letters

2022 Texas Institute of Letters Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction

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The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview Eirik Westcoat 2022 Texas Institute of LettersPresenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist (free labor) society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and