Amelioration and empire: progress and slavery in the plantation Americas

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

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1. Verfasser: Dierksheide, Christa (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville [u.a.] Univ. of Virginia Press 2014
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Jeffersonian America series
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Zusammenfassung:"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Beschreibung:xi, 279 p. ill., maps 25 cm

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