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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Proslavery"”.
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The Apologist Tradition: A Transitional Period in Southern Proslavery Thought, 1831-1845
Early antebellum defenders of slavery acknowledged that slavery created problems for southern society. They contended, however, that slave society was better and more natural than other forms of social organization. Thomas R. Dew, William Harper, and James Henry Hammond each expressed a social …
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The Slave South In The Far West: California, The Pacific, And Proslavery Visions Of Empire
… has been written on the far western dimension of proslavery expansion. My work traces two interrelated initiatives – the southern campaign for a transcontinental railroad and the extension of a proslavery political order across the Far Southwest – in order to situate the struggle over slavery in a …
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The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860
… which led ACS slaveholders to reject proslavery arguments---were no different than the faculties exhibited by other bondpersons. Second, white Southerners often applauded and aided ACS manumissions. Third, Southern legislators and judges evinced liberal attitudes toward ACS …
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NEITHER NORTHERN NOR SOUTHERN: THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1847
… was in effect a slave state. The work of proslavery groups, namely slave masters, their agents, white and black kidnappers, and local, state, and national political supporters, undermined the ostensible successes of state laws designed to protect the freedom of African-Americans in …
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Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
… of a society that was becoming more overtly proslavery.</p>
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Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States
… writers confiscated the concept of nature from proslavery forces and fundamentally redefined it. Advocates of slavery routinely rationalized slave society by referencing a particular conception of nature--as static, transhistorical, and hierarchical--claiming that slavery simply mirrored the …
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"Can These Be The Sons of Their Fathers" The Defense of Slavery in Virginia, 1831-1832
… radical transformations in the nature of the proslavery argument occurred and where changing popular perceptions about the role of government can be seen. Since the Revolution, government in Virginia had been based upon the Lockean concept of the inviolable right of private property and of …
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"Bondage or Barbarism," Parson Brownlow and the Rhetoric of Racism in East Tennessee, 1845-1867.
<p>This study analyzes the rhetoric of William "Parson" Brownlow during the Civil War era. Within the pages of the <em>Whig</em>, Brownlow's famous newspaper, he created a fixed image of African Americans. Brownlow argued that when removed from slavery, people of African descent naturally became …
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
Many historians have examined the Civil War soldier, but few scholars have explored the racial attitudes and policies of the Confederate army. Although Southern men did not fight for slavery alone, the defense of the peculiar institution, and the racial control they believed it assured, united …