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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... advocates will put it forward , till it shall become alike lawful in all the States , old as well as new— -North as well as South . In 1862 , before Lincoln's transformation into a moral crusader against slavery with the conviction that ...
... advocates found many examples of slaveholding by the Israelites in the Old Testament texts . Slavery in the early years was by no means isolated to the Southern states . Before Massachusetts outlawed slavery in the 1780s , both Cotton ...
... advocates than North- ern antislavery representatives were required to exercise equivalent , representa- tive power in the House of Representatives . The Southern " slave power " was a function of congressional representation , and the ...
... advocates with a free- trade argument for continuing the institution — indeed , for its expansion . Slaves were commercial property , and a pervasive acceptance of race theory empowered the continuation and extension of slavery into the ...
... advocates of slavery had not developed a sufficiently rational argument to justify the cruelty of the trade itself . It would require a later fusion of moral suasion and religious rhetoric by the nineteenth - century abolitionists and ...
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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 |