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Illuminates the white South's efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Draws heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches.
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Whites, Attitudes, Slavery, History, Slavery, united states, history, Whites, history, Southern states, history, White peoplePlaces
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19th century, 18th centuryShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Deliver us from evil: the slavery question in the old South
2009, Oxford University Press
in English
019511809X 9780195118094
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Table of Contents
pt. 1: The Upper South's travail.
Owning slaves, disowning slavery ;
Rebellion and reaction -- -- pt. 2: The Lower South's embrace of slavery.
Opening the slave trade ;
Extending slavery -- -- pt. 3: Paternalism rising.
Paternalism emerges ;
Paternalism contested -- -- pt. 4:
Paternalism in crisis.
Scare ;
Analyzing the scare ;
Reacting to the scare -- -- pt. 5: Words and deeds.
Discourses of colonization ;
Rumors and insurrection -- -- pt. 6: Upper South responds.
Upper South debates slavery and colonization ;
Tennessee debates slavery ;
Ending free Black suffrage in North Carolina -- -- pt. 7: The lower South responds.
Reaction in the lower South ;
Abolition poison and Southern antidotes ;
Ideological reconfiguration of slavery in the lower South.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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