Liberty and Slavery

From the Preface:"In this book my ambition has been to identify the major forces that shaped southern political history from the colonial era to the Civil War, and to trace their development over time. This goal led me to look at the political and intellectual heritage of those who settled in the colonial South and to consider the key political, social and economic institutions they established. More important than any of these several considerations was the manner in which they interacted to create a particular political world..."