Elizabeth Fox-Genovese > Quotes

“the overwhelming majority of civilized, decent people would not have agreed: Indeed, they would have found such notions surprising. Before the eighteenth century, and especially before the dramatic revolutions with which it closed, most Europeans would have viewed the principle of free labor as surprising, if not alarming.”
― Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview