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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... examples of benevolent plantation mistresses who inculcate what Horace Bush- nell would call “ Christian Nurture " by teaching selected slave children how to read . Some missionary societies specifically called for literacy training ...
... 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 Mather and Increase ...
... example , children born to slaves after a certain predetermined date should be free rather than slave . This second phase also saw the formation of the American Colonization Society in 1816-17 , an organization that assumed the ...
... examples notwithstanding . One example among many captures this inherent ambiguity and the passions of the times . In 1857 , Abraham Lincoln became outraged by the publication of a volume authored by the Reverend Frederick A. Ross ...
... example ) as well as the genealogical descent of Africans from Cain and Canaan , who are both cursed in the Book of Genesis . A staunch defender of the " rightness " of slavery and an opponent of abolitionism , Ross was a believer in ...
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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 |