Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South A Brief History with Documents

Name: Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South A Brief History with Documents
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ISBN: 9780312133276

ISBN-10: 0312133278

ISBN-13: 9780312133276

Edition: 2003

Authors: Paul Finkelman

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Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition. Slavery, however, was entrenched in the South and remained integral to American politics and culture. Nationally, it was protected by the U.S. Constitution, federal laws, and Supreme Court decisions, and slaveowners dominated all three branches of the federal government. From the time of the Revolution until the Civil War (and beyond), Southern thinkers offered a variety of proslavery arguments. This body of thought—based on religion, politics and law, economics, history, philosophy, expediency, and science—offers invaluable insights into how slavery shaped American…

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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 3/5/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.31" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

MU: Emeritus Professor of History and Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University; co-author of Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, Volumes 1 & 2, 2e (OUP, 2001). PF: Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School, co-author of Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, Volumes 1 & 2, 2e (OUP, 2001) and American Legal History, 3e (OUP 2004).



Foreword


Preface



Introduction: Defending Slavery


Northerners, Southerners, and Slavery


The Legitimacy of Slavery in Earlier Times


The Emergence of Slavery in Early America


The American Revolution Threatens Slavery


The Emergence of Proslavery Thought


The Outlines of Antebellum Proslavery Thought


Racial Theory and Ideology: The Key to Proslavery Thought



The Documents


Politics, Economics, and Proslavery Thought



Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787




Speech in the U.S. Senate, 1837




The Political Economy of Slavery, 1853




Effects of Abolition in the United States, 1858




The Mudsill Speech, 1858




The Cornerstone Speech, 1861



Religion and Slavery



The Duties of Christian Masters, 1851




DeBowï¿½ï¿½ï¿½s Review, Slavery and the Bible, 185