Title Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide.

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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (280 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Jeffersonian America
	Jeffersonian America.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- I. Virginia -- "The great improvement and civilization of that race" -- "The desideratum is to diminish the Blacks and increase the Whites" -- II. South Carolina -- "Rising gradations to unlimited freedom" -- "The enormous evil that has haunted the imaginations of men" -- III. The British West Indies -- "We may alleviate, though we cannot cure" -- "A matter of portentous magnitude, and still more portentous -- Difficulty" -- Conclusion: Amelioration and empire, ca. 1845.
Summary	"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History.
	Antislavery movements.
	Great Britain.
	History.
	Antislavery movements -- America -- History.
	America.
	Progress -- Social aspects -- America -- History.
	Progress -- Social aspects.
	Progress.
	Plantation life -- America -- History.
	Plantation life.
	Enslaved persons -- America -- Social conditions.
	Enslaved persons.
	Social conditions.
	Slave trade -- America -- History.
	Slave trade.
	Slavery -- Political aspects -- America -- History.
	Slavery -- Political aspects.
	Slavery.
	Slavery -- America -- History.
	Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History.
	Colonies.
	America -- History -- To 1810.
Chronological Term	To 1810
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Dierksheide, Christa, 1980- Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas. Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, ©2014 xi, 279 pages Jeffersonian America. 9780813936215
ISBN	9780813936222 (electronic book)
	0813936225 (electronic book)
	9780813936215 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
	0813936217

Title Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide.

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