Deliver us from evil : the slavery question in the old South / Lacy K. Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Lacy K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Southern States--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century.

White people--Southern States--Attitudes--History--18th century.

White people.

White people--Southern States--Attitudes--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (682 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Illuminates the white South's efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Draws heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches.

Contents:

The upper South's travail. Owning slaves, disowning slavery ; Rebellion and reaction

The lower South's embrace of slavery. Opening the slave trade ; Extending slavery

Paternalism rising. Paternalism emerges ; Paternalism contested

Paternalism in crisis. The scare ; Analyzing the scare ; Reacting to the scare

Words and deeds. Discourses of colonization ; Rumors and insurrection

The upper South responds. The upper South debates slavery and colonization ; Tennessee debates slavery ; Ending free Black suffrage in North Carolina

The lower South responds. Reaction in the lower South ; Abolition poison and Southern antidotes ; The ideological reconfiguration of slavery in the lower South.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-983243-9

9786612335631

0-19-972303-6

1-282-33563-4

OCLC:

922954572