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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... Henry A. Wise Assayed 31. The Continuing Problem of Slavery: The Case of Liberia 32. The Continuing Problem of Slavery: The United Nations RECOMMENDED READING INDEX Introduction to the Transaction Edition: Slavery as Labor System and.
... labor studies, the late Professor Richard B. Morris probed slavery as an institution. His studies premised slavery as an institution, a form of organization, to the annoyance of some of his graduate students, and were not offered to a ...
... labor in the fields or behind oars. One is reminded of the chances of war affecting Rome itself. Hannibal destroyed its elite forces after coming down from the Alps. Had he not hesitated, giving the desperate Romans a chance to gather ...
... labor interest which entered into a long and massive struggle for freedom from a new slavery. The old slavery had involved the differences between animals and humans, their relations, too, for that matter. The new slavery brought ...
Louis Filler. labor “leaders” who were by no definition “workers.” Such were the dilemmas of people who sought the meanings of the times. Louis Filler PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The term “Negro” is used in the text, rather than black American or ...
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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 | |