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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... means of knowing was withheld from me . " For Frederick Douglass as for many others , miscegenation resulted in identity anxiety and a determined effort to establish parental genealogy . Another perspective on American slavery is found ...
... means isolated to the Southern states . Before Massachusetts outlawed slavery in the 1780s , both Cotton Mather and Increase Mather , the president of Harvard College , held household slaves , and the Reverend Jonathan Edwards ...
... means that one 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 ...
... means of defining negatively the ideal of enlightened society and thereby a way of legitimizing the mores of a modern commercial society once the slave trade issue had been resolved . " The slave trade was abolished in England in 1807 ...
... means of suggesting , as the slave narratives did , that the larger story of the race , which black writers have continued to represent in their narratives , is still very much undecided . ” 21 PROSLAVERY FICTION We must not assume that ...
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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 |