The Southern Debate over Slavery
Title | The Southern Debate over Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2024-02-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0252056299 |
An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal restrictions that shaped southern society.
The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Petitions to Southern legislatures, 1778-1864
Title | The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Petitions to Southern legislatures, 1778-1864 PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780252026324 |
A collection of 180 county court petitions designed to offer as broad a selection as possible and include the voices of all participants: black and white, slave and free, slaveholder and non-slaveholder, male and female.
The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Petitions to Southern county courts, 1775-1867
Title | The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Petitions to Southern county courts, 1775-1867 PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 0252032608 |
Slavery and southern society as documented in individual petitions
The Southern Debate Over Slavery
Title | The Southern Debate Over Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Schweninger |
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Release | 2001 |
Genre | African Americans |
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The Debate Over Slavery
Title | The Debate Over Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | David F Ericson |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2000-12-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0814722636 |
Frederick Douglass and George Fitzhugh disagreed on virtually every major issue of the day. On slavery, women's rights, and the preservation of the Union their opinions were diametrically opposed. Where Douglass thundered against the evils of slavery, Fitzhugh counted its many alleged blessings in ways that would make modern readers cringe. What then could the leading abolitionist of the day and the most prominent southern proslavery intellectual possibly have in common? According to David F. Ericson, the answer is as surprising as it is simple; liberalism. In The Debate Over Slavery David F. Ericson makes the controversial argument that despite their many ostensible differences, most Northern abolitionists and Southern defenders of slavery shared many common commitments: to liberal principles; to the nation; to the nation's special mission in history; and to secular progress. He analyzes, side-by-side, pro and antislavery thinkers such as Lydia Marie Child, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Thomas R. Dew, and James Fitzhugh to demonstrate the links between their very different ideas and to show how, operating from liberal principles, they came to such radically different conclusions. His raises disturbing questions about liberalism that historians, philosophers, and political scientists cannot afford to ignore.
SOUTHERN DEBATE OVER SLAVERY.
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Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery
Title | Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | John R. McKivigan |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780820320762 |
Essays discuss proslavery arguments in the churches, the urge toward compromise and unity, the coming of schisms in the various denominations, and the role of local conditions in determining policies