Defending slavery : proslavery thought in the Old South : a brief history with documents / Paul Finkelman.

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Bibliographic Details
Published:	Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2003.
Online Access:	Publisher description
Main Author:	Finkelman, Paul, 1949-
Series:	The Bedford series in history and culture
Subjects:	Slavery > Southern States > Justification > Sources. Slavery > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources. Slavery > Southern States > Justification. Slavery > Southern States > History > 19th century. Southern States > Intellectual life > Sources. Southern States > Race relations > Sources. Southern States > Intellectual life. Southern States > Race relations.
Format:	Book

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1. Introduction : defending slavery
Pt. 2. The documents
1. Notes on the state of Virginia, 1787 / Thomas Jefferson
2. Speech in the U.S. Senate, 1837 / John C. Calhoun
3. The political economy of slavery, 1853 / Edmund Ruffin
4. Effects of abolition in the United States, 1858 / Thomas R. R. Cobb
5. The mudsill speech, 1858 / James Henry Hammond
6. The cornerstone speech, 1861 / Alexander Stephens
7. The duties of Christian masters / A. T. Holmes
8. Slavery and the Bible, 1850 / De Bow's Review
9. Duty of clergymen in relation to the marriage of slaves, 1859 / Protestant Episcopal Convention of South Carolina
10. The Bible argument : or, slavery in the light of divine revelation, 1860 / Thornton Stringfellow
11. State v. Mann (opinion of Thomas Ruffin), 1829 / North Carolina Supreme Court
12. Dred Scott v. Sandford (opinion of Roger B. Taney), 1857 / U.S. Supreme Court
13. What is slavery, and its foundation in the natural law, 1858 / Thomas R. R. Cobb
14. Report on the diseases of and physical peculiarities of the Negro race, 1851 / Samuel A. Cartwright
15. The hireling and the slave, 1854 / William J. Grayson
16. Sociology for the South, 1854, and Cannibals all! 1857 / George Fitzhugh
17. Instincts of races, 1866 / Josiah C. Nott
App. A slavery chronology (1619-1870).

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