A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865Mason I. Lowance Jr. 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. |
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... oppressive practices and offers the modern reader an excellent " insider picture ” of life on a Southern plantation . His mixed parentage is the source of an identity crisis from the first chapter : " My father was a white man . He was ...
... oppression , submission , ignorance , toil , and vice ! This trope , vigorously attacked by African - American criticism since 1852 and exploited by proslavery advocates , Reconstruction race - theorists , and minstrel dramatists , has ...
... oppressed condition and that of the African slaves , so that the aggressive abolitionist movement led by Garrison and his followers provided them an opportunity to develop arguments for female emancipation . The antislavery movement ...
... oppression , and horrors of slavery from a first - person perspective . The voices that appear in these slave narratives , which should be read in conjunction with the abolitionist documents contained in this volume , differ markedly ...
... oppression that could never permit adequate civil rights to the African slave . This dispute over control of the media for the abolitionist crusade continued throughout their careers , and the two men contributed mightily to the cause ...
Contents
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | lxi |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | lxiii |
CHAPTER 1 The Historical Background for the Antebellum Slavery Debates 17761865 | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 Acts of Congress Relating to Slavery | 20 |
CHAPTER 4 Biblical Antislavery Arguments | 88 |
CHAPTER 5 The Economic Arguments Concerning Slavery | 116 |
CHAPTER 6 Writers and Essayists in Conflict over Slavery | 156 |
CHAPTER 7 Science in Antebellum America | 249 |
CHAPTERS 8 The Abolitionist Crusade | 327 |
CHAPTER 9 Concluding Remarks and Alexis de Tocqueville 18051859 | 474 |
INDEX | 485 |
CHAPTER 3 Biblical Proslavery Arguments | 51 |
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