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Proslavery Britain
Author | : Paula E. Dumas |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113755858X |
This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art, poetry, and literature, to propaganda, scientific studies, and parliamentary papers, Proslavery Britain explores the many ways in which slavery's defenders helped shape the processes of abolition and emancipation. It finds that proslavery arguments and rhetoric were carefully crafted to justify slavery, defend the colonies, and attack the abolition movement at the height of the slavery debates.
Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion
Author | : Christopher Michael Curtis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012-04-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107017408 |
Jefferson's Freeholders explores the processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. Focusing on ideas of ownership, the book emphasizes the persistent influence of English common law on the state's political culture. It uniquely details how the traditional principles of land tenure were subverted by the economic and political changes of the nineteenth century and how they fostered law reforms that encouraged the idea that slavery should replace land ownership as the distinguishing basis for political power.
Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments
Author | : E. N. Elliott |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 924 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : |
Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Cotton is King
Author | : David Christy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
ISBN | : |
No Property in Man
Author | : Sean Wilentz |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674972228 |
A radical reconstruction of the founders’ debate over slavery and the Constitution. Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation’s founding. The acclaimed political historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently. Although the proslavery side won important concessions, he asserts, antislavery impulses also influenced the framers’ work. Far from covering up a crime against humanity, the Constitution restricted slavery’s legitimacy under the new national government. In time, that limitation would open the way for the creation of an antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation. Wilentz’s controversial and timely reconsideration upends orthodox views of the Constitution. He describes the document as a tortured paradox that abided slavery without legitimizing it. This paradox lay behind the great political battles that fractured the nation over the next seventy years. As Southern Fire-eaters invented a proslavery version of the Constitution, antislavery advocates, including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, proclaimed antislavery versions based on the framers’ refusal to validate what they called “property in man.” No Property in Man invites fresh debate about the political and legal struggles over slavery that began during the Revolution and concluded with the Confederacy’s defeat. It drives straight to the heart of the most contentious and enduring issue in all of American history.
The American Slave Coast
Author | : Ned Sublette |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 161374823X |
American Book Award Winner 2016 The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light. Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made the reproductive labor of the people it referred to as "breeding women" essential to the young country's expansion. Captive African Americans in the slave nation were not only laborers, but merchandise and collateral all at once. In a land without silver, gold, or trustworthy paper money, their children and their children's children into perpetuity were used as human savings accounts that functioned as the basis of money and credit in a market premised on the continual expansion of slavery. Slaveowners collected interest in the form of newborns, who had a cash value at birth and whose mothers had no legal right to say no to forced mating. This gripping narrative is driven by the power struggle between the elites of Virginia, the slave-raising "mother of slavery," and South Carolina, the massive importer of Africans—a conflict that was central to American politics from the making of the Constitution through the debacle of the Confederacy. Virginia slaveowners won a major victory when Thomas Jefferson's 1808 prohibition of the African slave trade protected the domestic slave markets for slave-breeding. The interstate slave trade exploded in Mississippi during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, drove the US expansion into Texas, and powered attempts to take over Cuba and other parts of Latin America, until a disaffected South Carolina spearheaded the drive to secession and war, forcing the Virginians to secede or lose their slave-breeding industry. Filled with surprising facts, fascinating incidents, and startling portraits of the people who made, endured, and resisted the slave-breeding industry, The American Slave Coast culminates in the revolutionary Emancipation Proclamation, which at last decommissioned the capitalized womb and armed the African Americans to fight for their freedom.
Walker's Appeal in Four Articles
Author | : David Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : African American authors |
ISBN | : |
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807
Author | : Justin Roberts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-07-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107025850 |
This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.