# The Ruling Race

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- Book: [The Ruling Race](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-oakes/the-ruling-race) ([The Ruling Race.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-oakes/the-ruling-race.md))
- Authors: [James Oakes](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-oakes)
- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0782-813-2
- Published: 2013-04-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## 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...