Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829: An AnthologyJeffrey Robert Young Univ of South Carolina Press, 23 sep 2020 - 272 pagina's Thirteen treatises recall the history of slavery's defenders beginning in the colonial South In Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740–1829, Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled thirteen texts that reveal the development of proslavery perspectives across the colonial and early national South, from Maryland to Georgia. The tracts, lectures, sermons, and petitions in this volume demonstrate that defenses of human bondage had a history in southern thought that long predated the later antebellum era traditionally associated with the genesis of such positive defenses of slavery. Previous anthologies, notably Drew Gilpin Faust's The Ideology of Slavery, have made the perspectives of antebellum slavery's defenders widely available to scholars and students, but earlier proslavery thinkers have remained largely inaccessible to modern readers. Young's anthology offers a corrective. In his introduction to the volume, Young explores the relationship between proslavery thought, Christianity, racism, and sectionalism. He emphasizes the ways in which justifications for slavery were introduced into the American South by reformers who hoped to integrate the region into a transatlantic religious community. These early proponents of slavery tended to minimize racial distinctions between master and slave, and they hoped to minimize the cultural distance between southern plantations and English society. Only in the early nineteenth century—with the rise of an increasingly influential abolition movement—did proslavery thinkers begin to justify their beliefs with approaches that underscored differences between North and South. Even then the theorists included in this anthology emphasized the extent to which southern slaveholders' claims to mastery were rooted in a Western moral tradition that reached back to antiquity. |
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... England's population consisted of slaves. More strikingly still, as many as one-fifth of the West Country's population was enslaved at this point in England's history. And as western Europe slowly purged itself of slavery between the ...
... England's development as a colonial power in the New World. In their first half-century of existence, English settlements in Virginia and in the West Indies developed plantation economies that used unfree labor.60 The resulting profits ...
... England's glory and the slaveholders' fiscal gains could be interpreted as signs of God's bounty. But if the slave populations were denied access to the Gospels, then the irreligious nature of the plantation complex threatened the ...
... England to the distant world of plantation slavery.79 Across this network, proslavery texts began to flow from England in the early eighteenth century. Bray himself saw to it that more than thirty-three thousand books and tracts were ...
... England. The SPG, according to one of its secretaries, judged Fleetwood's address to be “so useful a Discourse, that they printed and dispersed abroad in the Plantations, great Numbers of that Sermon.” Likewise, in 1727 the SPG ...
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1 George Whitefield 1740 | 68 |
2 Alexander Garden 1740 | 75 |
3 Thomas Bacon 1749 | 79 |
4 Samuel Davies 1757 | 97 |
5 William Knox 1768 | 119 |
6 Petition to the Virginia Assembly 1785 | 134 |
7 Henry Pattillo 1787 | 138 |
8 William Graham 1796 | 167 |
9 Edmund Botsford 1808 | 173 |
10 William Meade 1813 | 198 |
11 William Smith 1818 1820 | 208 |
12 Richard Furman 1823 | 225 |
13 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 1829 | 239 |
Index | 255 |
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