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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... servant.” Qualities such as “temperance, courage, justice, and the like” were forever out of the slave's reach because the slave supposedly possessed “no deliberative faculty at all.”49 Denying the slave any role as an individual with ...
... servants “must honor their 'Housefather' in the same way that children and wives do, and 'not only the good and moderate fathers, but also the corrupt, harsh, and evil ones.'” Organic assumptions about patriarchal authority, then ...
... servants and of good skill, for I see that they repeat very quickly whatever was said to them.” To this observation, Columbus immediately appended his prediction that “they would easily be made Christians.”58 If the Catholic theological ...
... servants, or masters and slaves.61 Notwithstanding the variegated positions staked out by these authors, they found ... servant or a slave,” he averred, “were one and the same thing at first.” To illustrate the dangers attending efforts ...
... servants, see that you be good masters, and do your own duty, and then either your servants will do theirs, or else all their failings, shall turn to your greater good.” Baxter was clearly not an abolitionist. Rather, he recognized the ...
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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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