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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... political, and may or may not be justified. The other attempts to grapple with the various forces which are palpably before him, and the various issues which are in controversy. These are difficult to comprehend in the best of times. If ...
... Political Economy of Slavery (1965) pondered the workings of slavery as embodying dilemmas of a moral and economic nature. But, aside from such analyses, how is one to treat the experiences of slavery? What approaches are appropriate to ...
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Contenido
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 | |