Slavery, Race and the American Revolution
, by Duncan J. MacLeodNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521098779 | 0521098777
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/25/1975
This book analyses the impact of American Revolutionary ideology upon conceptions of the place of slavery in American society. The ambivalence involved in a libertarian revolution occurring in a slave society was as obvious to eighteenth-century Americans as it is to twentieth-century historians yet the obvious sincerity of Southern Republicanism and the persistence of slavery have presented a paradox with which historians have hardly come to terms.