Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Preface xi
Introduction xxiii
Chronology xxvii
1 A Brief Psychological Portrait of the American Southern White Elite Planter Class 1
2 The Elite Enslavers' Core Assumptions and Beliefs about Black Africans 25
3 The Surprising Sketch of the White Southern Female Elite Slaveholder 43
4 Common and Idiosyncratic Enslaver Psychological Defense Mechanisms 63
5 Unassailable Divine Defense of Racist Chattel Slavery 99
6 Scriptural Confabulation: The Story of Noah in Genesis 9:18-27 123
7 The Psychological Dynamics of the Slaveholders' Fears 143
8 The Slave Masters' Methodologies 163
9 The Slave Masters' Laws and Social Policies 195
10 Money Talks: Slavery Was Just Business 209
11 The Throughline 225
Epilogue 237
Appendix A Adaptive and Maladaptive Slaveholder Psychological Defense Mechanisms 263
Appendix B Psychological Defense Mechanisms 267
Appendix C A Hypothetical Proslavery Sermon 271
Notes 275
Bibliography 309
Further Reading 321
Acknowledgments 331
Index 333