Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents
by Paul Finkelman
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"Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition. Slavery, however, was entrenched in the South and remained integral to American politics and culture. Nationally, it was protected by the U.S. Constitution, federal laws, and Supreme Court decisions, and slaveowners dominated all three branches of the federal government. From the time of the Revolution until the Civil War (and beyond), Southern thinkers offered a show more variety of proslavery arguments. This body of thought - based on religion, politics and law, economics, history, philosophy, expediency, and science - offers invaluable insights into how slavery shaped American history and continues to affect American society. In this volume, Paul Finkelman presents a representative selection of proslavery thought and includes an introduction that explores the history of slavery and the debate over it."--pub. desc. show lessTags
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Paul Finkelman (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the Ariel F. Sallows Visiting Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law. His many books include Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson: Millard Fillmore: A Biography; and A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United show more States, which he co-authored. He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present; The Encyclopedia of the New American Nation; and The Encyclopedia of World Slavery. For the Bedford Series in History and Culture he edited A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger, with Related Documents and Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South, A Brief History with Documents. Finkelman has also published numerous scholarly articles on slavery, American legal history, civil rights, civil liberties, and baseball and the law. show less
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- Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents
- Original publication date
- 2003
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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- 306.3620973 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Economic institutions Systems of labor Slavery Biography And History Biography And History North America United States
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- E449 .F496 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 Slavery in the United States. Antislavery
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