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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... Gospel liberated slaves from their earthly condition of service, he had still opened the door to a theology that ... Gospels continued proslavery themes running through the Old Testament wherein the faithful were urged to treat their ...
... Gospels, then the irreligious nature of the plantation complex threatened the empire with disastrous and ignominious consequences. In the 1660s, as a planter elite was materializing in the British West Indies and as the Virginia ...
... Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).This Anglican organization subsequently funded numerous missions to the colonial slave populations. Bray also willed a portion of his estate to fund a second missionary group (that later called themselves ...
... Gospel rather than their innate deficiencies had left them in a position to be enslaved. “If their sin[s] have enslaved them to you,” he concluded, “yet Nature made them your equals.”93 Upholding the slaveholders' right to keep their ...
... Gospel.”After Whitefield criticized the Anglican clergy for spouting “false Doctrine,” Garden denied him permission to preach from Anglican pulpits. When Whitefield conducted services in the dissenting churches in Charleston, Garden ...
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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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