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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... THEORIES 266 by Adam Linker White Supremacy and Negro Subordination 268 by J. H. Van Evrie THOMAS JEFFERSON ( 1743–1826 ) 268 Notes on the State of Virginia 270 HENRI GRÉGOIRE ( 1750-1831 ) 273 On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes ...
... theory , are what we now call " racist " and are offensive to the modern sensibility concerning race relations . But these were the views held by a majority of Americans in the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War ...
... theory empowered the continuation and extension of slavery into the Western territories . As the historian Barbara Fields has suggested , " ideas about color are always mediated by prevailing social relations . To assume , by intention ...
... theory . As the historian Philip Gould observes , “ for the eighteenth century , the slave trade as a corrupt ... theories of race and the classification of humanity into a hierarchy of racial groups . It is this pseudoscientific ...
... 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 debates are complex and often confusing ...
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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 |