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A House Divided
Mason I. Lowance (Hrsg.)
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Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
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.
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Self-made man, Lysander Spooner, Social contract, Racial segregation in the United States, Curse of Ham, Lydia Maria Child, Rights of Man, Haitian Revolution, Slave Power, Abolitionism, Compromise of 1850, Thomas Clarkson, Free negro, We Shall Overcome, American Colonization Society, The Day of Doom, Despotism, Slave catcher, Special rights, Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Patriot, Benjamin Lundy, Peculiar institution, Superiority (short story), Rebuke, American Letter Mail Company, Montgomery bus boycott, The Philosopher, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Letter of marque, Racism in the United States, Involuntary servitude, Free the Slaves, Freeman (Colonial), Of Human Bondage, Lewis Tappan, Oppression, Divine right of kings, Demagogue, Dred Scott, The Iron Heel, House of correction, Phrenology, Racism, Religion, William Lloyd Garrison, Interracial marriage, Of Education, George Fitzhugh, Guilty Men, Ridicule, Puritans, Crime, Wickedness, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, Slavery in the United States, Slavery, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Revolution, Blacklisting, Stephen A. Douglas, Approbation, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Code Noir, American Anti-Slavery Society, American Slavery as It Is, Slave and free states, Preston Brooks, Bill Cosby, Slave rebellion