ISBN:
9780813936222
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (280 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Jeffersonian America
Parallel Title:
Print version Amelioration and Empire : Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
DDC:
306.362097
Keywords:
Plantation life History
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Slaves Social conditions
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Slave trade History
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Slavery Political aspects
;
History
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Slavery History
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Progress Social aspects
;
History
;
Antislavery movements History
;
Antislavery movements History
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Slavery -- America -- History
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- America -- History
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Slave trade -- America -- History
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Slaves -- America -- Social conditions
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Plantation life -- America -- History
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Progress -- Social aspects -- America -- History
;
Antislavery movements -- America -- History
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Slavery ; America ; History
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Slavery ; Political aspects ; America ; History
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Slave trade ; America ; History
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Slaves ; America ; Social conditions
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Plantation life ; America ; History
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Progress ; Social aspects ; America ; History
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Antislavery movements ; America ; History
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Antislavery movements ; Great Britain ; History
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America ; History ; To 1810
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Great Britain ; Colonies ; America ; History
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Electronic books
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America History To 1810
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Great Britain Colonies
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History
Abstract:
"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionI. 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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