Deliver Us from Evil

The Slavery Question in the Old South

Autor: Lacy Ford

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A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil ill...

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Autor

Lacy Ford

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engleză

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Publicat

2012

Pagini

688

EAN

9780199832439

ISBN

0199832439

Enbook ID

04536215

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

1051

Dimensiuni

154 x 233 x 43

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A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil 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. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches, Lacy K. Ford recaptures the varied and sometimes contradictory ideas and attitudes held by groups of white southerners as they tried to square slavery with their democratic ideals. He excels at conveying the political, intellectual, economic, and social thought of leading white southerners, vividly recreating the mental world of the varied actors and capturing the vigorous debates over slavery. He also shows that there was not one antebellum South but many, and not one southern white mindset but several, with the debates over slavery in the upper South quite different in substance from those in the deep South. In the upper South, where tobacco had fallen into comparative decline by 1800, debate often centered on how the area might reduce its dependence on slave labor and

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