Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-

Series:

Jeffersonian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--America--History.

Slavery.

Colonies.

History.

Antislavery movements.

Progress--Social aspects.

Progress.

Plantation life.

Enslaved persons.

Social conditions.

Slavery--Political aspects.

America.

Slavery--Political aspects--America--History.

Slave trade--America--History.

Slave trade.

Enslaved persons--America--Social conditions.

Plantation life--America--History.

Progress--Social aspects--America--History.

Antislavery movements--America--History.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.

America--History--To 1810.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 279 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

Summary:

"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

I. Virginia

"The great improvement and civilization of that race"

"The desideratum is to diminish the Blacks and increase the Whites"

II. South Carolina

"Rising gradations to unlimited freedom"

"The enormous evil that has haunted the imaginations of men"

III. The British West Indies

"We may alleviate, though we cannot cure"

"A matter of portentous magnitude, and still more portentous

Difficulty"

Conclusion: Amelioration and empire, ca. 1845.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813936215

0813936217

OCLC:

880566272