ISBN:
9781624665370
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (330 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Hammond, Scott J The American Debate over Slavery, 1760-1865: An Anthology of Sources
DDC:
306.3/620973
Keywords:
Slavery--United States--History--Sources
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication, Acknowledgments, and Note Regarding Transcriptions -- General Introduction -- Chapter One: 1760-1786 -- Introduction -- 1. Anthony Benezet, A Short Account of That Part of Africa Inhabited by the Negroes (1762) -- 2. Patrick Henry, Letter to Robert Pleasants (January 18, 1773) -- 3. Benjamin Rush, An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America on the Slavery of the Negroes in America (1773) -- 4. Richard Nisbet, Slavery Not Forbidden by Scripture, Or a Defense of the West Indian Planter (1773)
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5. Thomas Jefferson, Notes from a Meeting of the Committee of the Continental Congress on the Articles of Confederation (July 12, 1776) -- 6. Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Jay (March 14, 1779) -- 7. Chief Justice William Cushing, Notes on Quok Walker v. Nathaniel Jennison (1783) -- 8. Methodist Petition to Abolish Slavery in Virginia (November 1785) -- 9. Amelia County Pro-Slavery Petition (November 10, 1785) -- 10. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (completed by 1785 -- final and revised publication in 1787) -- 11. George Washington, Letter to Robert Morris (April 12, 1786)
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Chapter Two: 1787-1817 -- Introduction -- 1. Philadelphia Constitutional Convention Debates, as recorded by James Madison (1787) -- 2. James Wilson, Speech in the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (December 3, 1787) -- 3. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives over the Calling of a State Ratifying Convention (January 17, 1788) -- 4. Debates in the U.S. Congress: House of Representatives (May 13, 1789) -- 5. Debates in the U.S. Congress: House of Representatives (February 11-March 17, 1790) -- 6. Absalom Jones, Petition to the U.S. Congress (1799)
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7. Debates in the U.S. Congress: House of Representatives, in Response to a Petition from Absalom Jones, et al. (January 2-3, 1800) -- 8. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Rufus King, U.S. Minister to Great Britain (July 13, 1802) -- 9. James Forten, Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania (1813) -- 10. John Taylor, Arator (1814) -- 11. James Forten and Russell Perrott, An Address to the Humane and Benevolent Inhabitants of the City and County of Philadelphia (1817) -- Chapter Three: 1818-1830 -- Introduction
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1. Rufus King, Two Speeches on the Missouri Bill, Delivered before the U.S. Senate (1819) -- 2. Debates in the U.S. Congress: House of Representatives (February 15, 1819) -- 3. Debates in the U.S. Congress: House of Representatives (February 16, 1819) -- 4. James Madison, Letter to Robert J. Evans (June 15, 1819) -- 5. Robert Walsh, Jr., Free Remarks on the Spirit of the Federal Constitution (1819) -- 6. James Madison, Letter to Robert Walsh, Jr. (November 27, 1819) -- 7. Debates in the U.S. Congress: Senate (January 20-February 1, 1820)
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8. Joshua Cushman, Address before the U.S. House of Representatives (February 14, 1820)
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