Noxious Philanthropy: The Religion of Southern Slaveholders 1840-1865 This booklet is a concise exploration of slaveholder belief in the late antebellum South. Drawing particularly upon letters and diaries, it delves into the sentiments, values, and assumptions that lay behind Southern rhetoric. Using the idea of a noxious philanthropy, Mishka Gora defines how slaveholders' religion combined an avowed and usually genuine love of mankind with the practice of slavery and shows how humanity and inhumanity were together cherished in a foul compromise. Noxious Philanthropy was originally submitted as partial fulfilment of the author's Honours degree in American History in 1995 and contains invaluable primary source quotes and a detailed bibliography.