A House Divided : : The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865 / / Mason I. Lowance.
This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery de...
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A House Divided : The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865 / Mason I. Lowance. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2003 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PROLOGUE -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 1. The Historical Background for the Antebellum Slavery Debates, 1776-1865 -- CHAPTER 2. Acts of Congress Relating to Slavery -- CHAPTER 3. Biblical Proslavery Arguments -- CHAPTER 4. Biblical Antislavery Arguments -- CHAPTER 5. The Economic Arguments Concerning Slavery -- CHAPTER 6. Writers and Essayists in Conflict over Slavery -- CHAPTER 7. Science in Antebellum America -- CHAPTER 8. The Abolitionist Crusade -- CHAPTER 9. Concluding Remarks and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) -- INDEX This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print. Mason Lowance's introduction is an excellent overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. Lowance also introduces each selection, locating it historically, culturally, and thematically as well as linking it to other writings. The documents represent the full scope of the varied debates over slavery. They include examples of race theory, Bible-based arguments for and against slavery, constitutional analyses, writings by former slaves and women's rights activists, economic defenses and critiques of slavery, and writings on slavery by such major writers as William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Together they give readers a real sense of the complexity and heat of the vexed conversation that increasingly dominated American discourse as the country moved from early nationhood into its greatest trial. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) Antislavery movements United States History Sources. Slavery Political aspects United States History Sources. Slavery United States Justification History Sources. HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). bisacsh Lowance, Mason I., editor. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691188867?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691188867.jpg |
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