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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... principle reappeared as the president attempted to secure a Union victory that would preserve the United States without necessarily ending slavery . It is signif- icant that he also considered the possibility that colonization would be ...
... principles could be joined to the cause of preserving the Union , and this was a more moral , less pragmatically political position . Just as the nation had been divided by slavery and secession , Abraham Lincoln's rhetoric from 1858 to ...
... principles that were vigorously debated in Europe and in the Americas . Nevertheless , the antebellum debates in America were special because the United States , contrasted with the monarchial governments of Europe , were “ conceived in ...
... principles composed by an American , the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ) , should have been authored by Thomas Jefferson , master of Monticello , a large Virginia plantation , and the owner of slaves . The early voices of ...
... principle of morality and politics . Both habits of mind , though seemingly abstract , were derived from the concrete task facing aboli- tionists , to make slavery a burning issue for northern Whites . The women who built the women's ...
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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 |