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In 1767 the brigantine Augustine landed 70 Negroes from Africa at St. Augustine and a year later the British governor of East Florida wrote that Richard Oswald, an East Florida planter, had over 100 Negroes on his plantation.'0 Another big slave owner of British colonial Florida (East Florida) was Denys Rolle.
Southern regionalists supplied the elements of a pro-slavery argument and ex-slave autobiographers infused their narratives with abolitionist rhetoric at a time in which stories Americans told about themselves became increasingly important in the national political crisis over slavery extension and fugitive slaves.
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.
18 Αυγ 2016 · The debates over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 reveal key proslavery arguments, such as the importance of economic utility, a sense that slavery is nearly ubiquitous in human history, and that slavery cannot be ended without doing more harm than good.
Slavery in Florida uncovers a pattern of slave resistance, both before and during the Civil War, that will be familiar to students of southern slavery generally.
Abstract. Serious scholarly invetigation of slavery in Florida began with the 1973 publication of Julia Floyd Smith's Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860. In her own way Smith was a pioneer.
He discusses the internal slave trade that moved thousands of slaves from the eastern seaboard to the cotton states of the Southwest between 1820 and 1860. Professor Blight then sketches the contents of the pro-slavery argument, including its biblical, historical, economic, cynical, and utopian aspects.
