Slavery in the United StatesRoutledge, 2018 M04 24 - 165 páginas Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce the issue to one of fact and figures, nor does he inject endless hypotheses and analogues. Rather, this finely etched volume encompasses the human implications of slavery and its practices. It emphasizes the distinguished and disreputable elements on both sides of the slavery relationship, and in every part of the United States. Slavery offers peculiar challenges to the student of American life, past and present. It is unrealistic to avoid the human implications of slavery and its practice. It is equally unhelpful to assume glib and partial viewpoints with respect to so all-embracing a system as slavery became. The cause of progress, no less than social science, is not advanced by indifference to patent facts. The civil libertarian who romanticizes black people indiscriminately, and lumps Jefferson Davis with Simon Legree may win popularity with enthusiasts and ideologues. But they will soon find themselves quaint and outmoded. The author reminds us that "the safest approach to slavery is to determine what the institution meant to the country at large; why it flourished as it did, and how it came to be opposed and overthrown." The work includes high quality often neglected readings that permit the reader to form his or her own views. It reveals the best writing on all aspects of the slavery issue, as well as analytic summations by contemporary historians and social researchers. |
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... Debate PART II READINGS 1. Andrew Jackson Seeks a Runaway 2. Indian Slavers 3. The Slave Trader: His Life and Outlook 4. James Fenimore Cooper On Slavery in New York 5. Frederick Law Olmsted: An Antislavery Opinion in North Carolina.
... debates. It is invidious. It appears as rhetoric, as in “industrial slavery,” but has troubles with strike breakers, many of whom in the cities were black. It was a difficult concept in the nineteenth century, because it was identified ...
... debates and compromise acts. It had resisted southern efforts to make the North open to slavery, removed President Buchanan from the White House—who thought he had no power to hold the South in the Union—and replaced him with Lincoln ...
... debate, northern partisans would try to expose differences between Bible slavery and that at home, to the latter's disadvantage. Southern defenders would identify themselves with Greece and Rome, describing themselves as part of a ...
... debate that then-contemporary modes of enslavement in Egypt, China, Arabia, India, and South America received meager publicity. As a popular “Treasury of Useful Knowledge” noted, as late as 1847: “An arrangement so universal as ...
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Negroes and Slavery | |
The Peculiar Institution | |
Effects of Revolutionary and PostRevolutionary Eras | |
Stabilizing the Slave System | |
Slavery as a Positive Good | |
Slavery as a Way of Life | |
The Challenge of Freedom | |
The Verdict of | |
The Continuing Debate | |
READINGS | |
Andrew Jackson Seeks a Runaway | |
His Life and Outlook | |
Spanish and American Slavery Compared | |
James Fenimore Cooper On Slavery in New York | |