Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840

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University of Georgia Press, 1. okt. 1990 - 501 strani
Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the slave-holding South, had its origins in the crucible of conservative New England.

Proslavery rhetoric, Tise shows, came late to the South, where the heritage of Jefferson's ideals was strongest and where, as late as the 1830s, most slaveowners would have agreed that slavery was an evil to be removed as soon as possible. When the rhetoric did come, it was often in the portmanteau of ministers who moved south from New England, and it arrived as part of a full-blown ideology. When the South finally did embrace proslavery, the region was placed not at the periphery of American thought but in its mainstream.

 

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ONE Beyond Racism and the Positive Good Argument
3
Two Origins of Proslavery in America 17011808
12
THREE Proslaverys Neglected Period 18081832
41
FOUR Proslavery Heritage of Britain and the West Indies
75
SIX American Defenders of Slavery 17901865
124
SEVEN Death of Americas Revolutionary Ideology 17761798
183
EIGHT Launching the Conservative Counterrevolution
204
NINE The Conservative Proslavery Center 18161865
238
TEN Emergence of Proslavery Ideology in the North
261
FOURTEEN Proslavery Republicanism
347
Proslavery Clergymen
363
Bibliography
427
Illustration Credits
471
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Priljubljeni odlomki

Stran 449 - Society shall be called the American Society for colonizing the free people of colour of the United States.
Stran 451 - ¡Free remarks on the spirit of the federal constitution, the practice of the federal government, and the obligations of the union, respecting the exclusion of slavery from the territories and new states. By a Philadelphian.

O avtorju (1990)

Larry E. Tise, author or editor of several books on southern history, is director of the Benjamin Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

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