DOI
10.2307/2703069
Abstract
Review of the book, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South by James Oakes. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Slavery and Freedom pursues its thesis with dogged energy. "Southerners took their definition of freedom from the liberal capitalist world which produced them and of which they remained a part," Oakes argues, "and this could only mean that southern slavery was defined as the denial of the assumptions of liberal capitalism."
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
6-1991
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Copyright © 1991 Johns Hopkins University Press. This book review first appeared in Reviews in American History.
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Recommended Citation
Ayers, E.L. "The World the Liberal Capitalists Made." Reviews In American History 19, no. 2 (June 1991): 194-199.
