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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... important and provided a moral rationale for the hostilities . It is the basic purpose of this volume to bring together the complex strands of the slavery debates , and to weave some meaning from the diverse views presented by these ...
... important voices in the debates , have been omitted because they are better understood when read and analyzed in full , and many are now in paperback . ( The most complete collections have been edited by Willie Lee Rose , A Documentary ...
... 1790 , George Washington's administration conducted a primitive census of the population and produced some important , if general , figures . In 1776 , the year of the Declaration of Independence , there were some xxviii • INTRODUCTION .
... important to remember that in the historical context , there was often confusion and ambiguity when a document did not specifically sanction or con- demn slavery . For example , while antislavery advocates could point to the Dec ...
... importance of literacy to freedom . 4. An escape structure , in which the predator and prey are always closely linked in an intense pursuit . 5. The presence of multiple narrative voices , as the adult narrator recapitulates earlier ...
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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 |