ed and all second-hand at best.
The lack of information does not seem to be the problem with the book, however, as there are many lists of statistics from demographic research and factual information concerning dates, names and places. The problem is the author’s attempt to portray the events and actions of the planter class as something that should merit them praise from the reader. He tries to liken these ruthless, often barbaric, slave masters, who surely divided, oppressed and used a society through forceful means as much as any Apartheid regime ever did, with industrial titans who took advantage of the poor, uneducated masses and acquired vast personal fortunes. Here Dunn uses an analogy of sorts to make his point-likening the successful large plantation owners of the agrarian age to industrial titans. Ignoring the abuses they were committing to do so, Dunn recants a list of the nouveau riche that reminds us of the nouveau riche in America at the beginning of the Indu
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