# The Ruling Race

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- Authors: [James Oakes](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-oakes)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2013-04-17

## Description

This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders...

## Editions

### The Ruling Race

- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0782-813-2
- Published: 2013-04-17
- Language: en_US