| Description |
viii, 673 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Draws heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches. |
| Contents |
The upper South's travail. Owning slaves, disowning slavery ; Rebellion and reaction -- The lower South's embrace of slavery. Opening the slave trade ; Extending slavery -- Paternalism rising. Paternalism emerges ; Paternalism contested -- Paternalism in crisis. The scare ; Analyzing the scare ; Reacting to the scare -- Words and deeds. Discourses of colonization ; Rumors and insurrection -- The upper South debates slavery and colonization ; Tennessee debates slavery ; Ending free Black suffrage in North Carolina -- Reaction in the lower South -- Abolition poison and Southern antidotes -- The ideological reconfiguration of slavery in the lower South. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
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Slavery. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
White people -- Southern States -- Attitudes -- History -- 18th century.
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White people. |
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White people -- Southern States -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
9780195118094 hardcover alkaline paper |
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019511809X hardcover alkaline paper |
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