"Slavery Ordained of God": The Southern Slaveholders' View of Biblical History and Modern Politics

by Eugene D. Genovese

31 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1985

About the author

Eugene Dominic Genovese was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize. He later abandoned the Left and Marxism, and embraced traditionalist conservatism.