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How did proponents of slavery in antebellum America defend it as a positive good? Understanding With an argument that was as much a critique of industrialism as it was a defense of slavery, Southern spokesmen contended that chattel slavery, as it was practiced in the American South, was more humane than the system of “wage slavery” that
slavery, from Thomas R. Dew's essays on the debates in the Vir- ginia legislature in 1831-1832 to the diffuse polemics of Fitzhugh, explicitly showed concern for the state of southern opinion.
thorough study of Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South. In a brilliant chapter in The Liberal Tradition in America Louis Hartz has placed the political theory of the southern defenders in perspective, and William R. Stanton's The Leopard's Spots revealingly analyzes the scientific arguments used to bolster slavery.
18 Αυγ 2016 · The academics’ proslavery arguments often built a political theory of hierarchy. It emphasized the inequality of enslaved people and argued that enslaved people were not fit for freedom.
It discusses early proslavery thought in the Americas, proslavery thought in the age of revolution, the role of proslavery thought in sectional conflict and postbellum sectional reconciliation, and the problem of proslavery thought in the modern world and in twentieth-century historiography.
The works in this collection portray the development, mature essence, and ultimate fragmentation of the proslavery argument during the era of its greatest importance in the American South.
slavery, emancipation and the process of state building in some 19th century South American countries (mainly Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru). In this project, I propose three arguments: (1) I want to argue that slavery, and especially the way slavery ended in Brazil,
