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17 Φεβ 2021 · This article focuses on Texas’ Trinity River to show how the South’s smaller rivers enabled the spread of plantation slavery in the final decades of the antebellum era. Unlike other histories of slavery that argue that the domination of slaves linked with mastery over cotton crops or a hydraulic landscape, on the Trinity the plantation ...
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1 Ιουν 2016 · By comparing counties, such as Brazoria, with a dense slave population, with counties such as Travis, where plantation agriculture never took a firm hold, users gain a good sense of the distribution and differences in Texas slaveholding.
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.
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.
Sellers, Jr. and Ralph E. Morrow have characterized the argument as an attempt by slaveholders to establish peace not with other groups but with themselves, by alleviating feelings of guilt created by nagging contradic-tions between slavery and America's democratic creed. Although both
In the United States the slavery controversy between the sections was becoming acute again. Petitions from northerners to pro-hibit slavery in the District of Columbia and to enjoin the interstate traffic in slaves were flooding Congress.
15 Ιουν 2023 · In the southern US, however, slavery underwent an enormous expansion—from the Atlantic seaboard to Texas—mainly as a result of the successful introduction of cotton in the newly acquired lands of the southern interior.
