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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... tion for ending the bloodshed and ideological conflict between the North and the South , that is , that the freed slave population would be returned to Africa rather than allowed to remain in the United States . To the Hon . Horace ...
... tion prohibiting slave literacy in its Slave Code of 1740 , and Georgia adopted the code in 1755. The progression of this prohibition against literacy among the slaves was to intensify after the American Revolution ; indeed , by the ...
... tion to assimilate equally with the African slave population following emancipa- tion , which he saw as inevitable . But the Richmond debates of 1831-32 turned things around , highlighting the potential violence of slave insurrections ...
... tion life , so that antislavery writers such as Stowe and James Russell Lowell and poets such as John Greenleaf Whittier had an uphill struggle to convince the reading public of what Theodore Dwight Weld had called American Slavery As ...
... tion that made him controversial , even among his followers . For example , at an abolitionist gathering on Independence Day , 1854 , in Framingham , Massachu- setts , Garrison publicly burned the Constitution of the United States ...
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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 |