Amelioration and Empire Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-

Series:

Jeffersonian America.

Jeffersonian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.

Antislavery movements.

Antislavery movements--America--History.

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

Progress.

Plantation life--America--History.

Plantation life.

Enslaved persons--America--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Slave trade--America--History.

Slave trade.

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

Slavery.

Slavery--America--History.

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

Great Britain.

America--History--To 1810.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813936222

0813936225

OCLC:

893685442