MARSE

A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master and His Legacy of White Supremacy.

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The word Marse is a nineteenth century synonym for “master.”

De’s book aims to answer how did Marse the slaveholder become psychologically and morally comfortable with claiming ownership, as property, another human being?

“Put every crime perpetrated among men into a single moral crucible, and dissolve and combine them all, and the resulting amalgam is slaveholding.”

—Illinois Congressman Owen Lovejoy, 1860