Proslavery : a history of the defense of slavery in America, 1701-1840
Larry E. Tise (Author)
Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the slave-holding South, had its origins in the crucible of conservative New England. Proslavery rhetoric, Tise shows, came late to the South, where the heritage of Jefferson's ideals was strongest and where, as late as the 1830s, most slaveowners would have agreed that slavery was an evil to be removed as soon as possible. When the rhetoric did come, it was often in the portmanteau of ministers who moved south from New England, and it arrived as part of a full-blown ideology. When the South finally did embrace proslavery, the region was placed not at the periphery of American thought but in its mainstream
Aufsatzsammlung
xix, 501 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780820309279, 9780820312286, 9780820323961, 0820309273, 0820312282, 0820323969
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Part One, The Mythology of Proslavery History: Beyond Racism and the "Positive Good" Argument
Origins of Proslavery in America, 1701-1808
Proslavery's "Neglected Period," 1808-1832
Proslavery Heritage of Britain and the West Indies, 1770-1833
The "Positive Good" Thesis and Proslavery Arguments in Britain and America, 1701-1861
American Defenders of Slavery, 1790-1865
Part Two, The Rise of Proslavery Ideology in America: Death of America's Revolutionary Ideology, 1776-1798
Launching the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1795-1816
The Conservative Proslavery Center, 1816-1865
Emergence of Proslavery Ideology in the North, 1831-1840
Proliferation of Conservative Ideas in the South, 1815-1835
Absence of a Southern Ideology for Proslavery, 1831-1835
The South Becomes Ideologized, 1835-1840
Proslavery Republicanism
Appendix 1: Proslavery Clergymen
Appendix 2: Proslavery Ideography Codebook
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina, 1974