Traub, James. Judah Benjamin, Counselor to the Confederacy, Yale University Press, 2021, 183 pages including notes and index. (Francie)
From inside flyleaf: “ How could a man as gifted as Benjamin, knowing that virtually all serious thinkers outside the American South regarded slavery as the most abhorrent of practices, not see that he was complicit with evil? This biography makes a serious moral argument both about Jews who assimilated to Southern society by embracing slave culture and about Benjamin himself, a man of great resourcefulness and resilience who would not, or could not, question the practice on which his own success, and that of the South, was founded.
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