The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview Eirik Westcoat The four go home to

The four go home to their beautiful house in the country outside ofNew York City and begin to settle into what they hope will be a long and happy life

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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 The four go home toPresenting 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