A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865Mason I. Lowance Jr. Princeton University Press, 05 հնս, 2018 թ. - 568 էջ This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print. |
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... Northern colonies was transmitted to the nineteenth century , just as the new nation , “ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal , ” as Abraham Lincoln would eloquently rephrase it in his ...
... Northern states ( New York not among them ) . However , the debates concerning its place in American society raged in pulpits , newspapers , and lecture halls both North and South as well as in the United States Congress and Supreme ...
... Northern , free - state congressman represented 91,958 white men and women while one Southern , slave - state congressman represented 68,725 white men and women . Thus fewer Southern proslavery advocates than North- ern antislavery ...
... Northern free citizens : 413,813 free citizens in the North enjoyed the same power and privilege in the Senate given to only 206,175 citizens of the slave states . Clearly , the Southern " slave power " voice could dominate the ...
... Northern states was only about 50 percent , so the target group for Stowe's novel numbered some 12 or 13 million men , women , and children , among whom several million copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin were circulated . This is an astonish ...
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | lxi |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | lxiii |
CHAPTER 1 The Historical Background for the Antebellum Slavery Debates 17761865 | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 Acts of Congress Relating to Slavery | 20 |
CHAPTER 4 Biblical Antislavery Arguments | 88 |
CHAPTER 5 The Economic Arguments Concerning Slavery | 116 |
CHAPTER 6 Writers and Essayists in Conflict over Slavery | 156 |
CHAPTER 7 Science in Antebellum America | 249 |
CHAPTERS 8 The Abolitionist Crusade | 327 |
CHAPTER 9 Concluding Remarks and Alexis de Tocqueville 18051859 | 474 |
INDEX | 485 |
CHAPTER 3 Biblical Proslavery Arguments | 51 |