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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... social satires , taking apart the masks of an American society that did not fully understand itself or the racial issues that divided it . Some would argue that works of fiction have little influence on the practical affairs of ...
... social issue . NINETEENTH - CENTURY RACE THEORY ARGUMENTS It is impossible to understand the antebellum slavery debates without some command of the race theories that were advanced to promote and defend the institution . The slavery ...
... social and cultural anthropology , but before the Civil War , Nott and Gliddon's scientific anthropological study exerted significant influence on American thinking about the status of the African in American society . The scientists ...
... social order , race theorists developed an ideology that claimed the inferiority and brutality of the African contrasted with the reasoned intelligence of the Caucasian . If these racist theories served to justify slavery , they also ...
... social and political equality of the white and black races . I am not now , nor ever have been , in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes , nor of qualifying them to hold office , nor to intermarry with white people , and I will ...
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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 |