An exploration of the American South's paradoxical devotion to liberty and the practice of slavery. Cooper contends that southerners defined their notions of liberty in terms of its opposite - slavery. He assesses how abolitionism, in the eyes of white southerners, threatened the death of liberty.
- ISBN13 9781570033872
- Publish Date 31 October 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of South Carolina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English