Jeremy J Tewell
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
vii, 168 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Self-Evident Lie explores and underscores the fear and complex meaning of "slavery" to northerners before the Civil War. Many northerners asked: If slavery was the beneficent and paternalistic institution that southerners claimed, could it not be applied with equal morality to whites as well as blacks? Republicans repeatedly expressed concern that proslavery arguments were not inherently racial. Irrespective of race, anyone could fall victim to...