7. Genovese would elaborate on this point in the last book he and Betsy collaborated on Mind of the Master Class.
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8. MotMC is largely celebration of great learning, erudition, and piety of the slave-owing class, showing their theological fidelity.
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9. In MotMC Genoveses ultimately condemned slave-owners, not on abolitionist grounds, but for failure to live up ideal of Christian mastery
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10. So: what happened to Genovese & Fox-Genovese, whose great work of 1960s-1980s is still central to understanding slavery?
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11. In part, the answer is even in his Marxist days, Genovese had tendency to idealize slave owners out of desire to take them seriously
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12. In trying to take slave-owners seriously as a ruling class, Genovese tended to overstate their shrewdness, paternalism, foresight, etc.
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14. The collapse of Soviet model, which Genovese was invested in, in 1989-1991, hit him hard, leaving him even more inclined to nostalgia
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15. Genovese always overstated extent to which Old South was alternative to Northern capitalism -- did even moreso after Leninist extinction
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16. Bereft of Soviet model but still yearning for alternative to hyper-individualism, Genovese embraced Catholic right & Old South
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17. Betsy Fox-Genovese is a separate case. Even though collaborator much less inclined to romantize slave-owing class.
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18. Fox-Genovese's turn to Catholic right more driven by theology and search for alternative to what she saw as individualistic feminism
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19. Whole question of where Genovese/Fox-Genovese went wrong is perhaps too big for a twitter essay -- they both deserve biographies
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