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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... individuals have been instrumental in bring A House Divided into being . I first became interested in slavery and civil rights while working as an instructor in the Upward Bound Program at Morehouse College , 1964–67 , where President ...
... individuals . But even Woolman , in Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes , ' condemned the trade more than the inhumanity of slavery : " Though there were Wars and Desolations among Negroes , before the Europeans began to trade ...
... natural " qualities in race theory that were irrevocable ; individuals might excel or achieve greatness , but one's racial and ethnic grouping had a determining influence on ability and character INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
... individual , the family , the community , and indeed the reader , are supposed to reconcile an act of motherhood which would value taking the life of the child over allowing the child to live as a slave . By drawing on the narrative ...
... also as a wake - up call to an errant nation that has abandoned its charter principles and has allowed slavery to coexist with annual proclamations and celebrations of individual rights . The hypocrisies and · liii INTRODUCTION .
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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 |