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Laddar... A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865av Mason I. Lowance
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This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print. Mason Lowance's introduction is an excellent overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. Lowance also introduces each selection, locating it historically, culturally, and thematically as well as linking it to other writings. The documents represent the full scope of the varied debates over slavery. They include examples of race theory, Bible-based arguments for and against slavery, constitutional analyses, writings by former slaves and women's rights activists, economic defenses and critiques of slavery, and writings on slavery by such major writers as William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Together they give readers a real sense of the complexity and heat of the vexed conversation that increasingly dominated American discourse as the country moved from early nationhood into its greatest trial. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)326.0973Social sciences Political Science Slavery and emancipation Trans-Atlantic Slavery Biography And History North America United StatesKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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All this said, however, A House Divided deserves attention because of its contributions as a source book. Its contributors cast a wide net, bringing in not only both antislavery and proslavery voices but also voices from a broad spectrum of disciplines--politicians, economists, preachers, scientists, and literary figures as well as abolitionists and the standard advocates of slavery. The breadth of their coverage conveys a sense of how broad-ranging the antebellum debates over slavery were and how they engaged every form of inquiry.