EUGENE D. GENOVESE (1930-2012) was one of the most influential, and controversial, historians of his time. He was the author of several books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll, for which he won the Bancroft Prize; The Southern Tradition; and The Southern Front.
Genovese makes a convincing, well-documented case that, although
southern ministers supported the war for a slaveholding republic,
they did not do so uncritically and repeatedly warned southerners
that they had to conform to God's word on the treatment of their
slaves if the Confederacy were to benefit from God's support and
achieve victory.--Gaines M. Foster "Civil War History"
A remarkable and important contribution to southern history during
its most critical period . . . Written with intellectual rigor and
impressive scholarship . . . [This] book belongs on the required
reading list of all seriously interested in southern
history.--Civil War Book Review
Always a superb essayist, [Genovese] develops a crisp and powerful
argument about the religious strand in the pro-slavery argument,
before, during, and after the war.--Times Literary Supplement
Genovese has again essayed important questions that scholars need
to address in more depth as they probe the many effects of the
Civil War upon the South.--Journal of Southern History
It should be viewed as a challenge to us all to try to understand
the Old South in all its contradictory complexity, and especially
to try to comprehend those southerners earnestly argued that
slavery was a God-given trust.--Southern Cultures
Tests the rhetoric of slave-holding as stewardship against a
fearful reality many argued to reform. Both challenging and
complementary to works by Drew Gilpin Faust, Mitchell Snay, and
Jack P. Maddex, this book is characteristic Genovese--informative,
insightful, and provocative.--Library Journal
Thoroughly researched and cogently argued . . . Gives historians of
the pro- and antislavery causes much to think about.--American
Historical Review
What seems most laudatory about Genovese is his attempt to try to
see the white antebellum South in all its complexity and richness
and to reaffirm the importance of religion in the region during the
nineteenth century.--H-CivWar
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