Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Colección:Jeffersonian America.
Temas:
To 1810
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History.
Antislavery movements > America > History.
Progress > Social aspects > America > History.
Plantation life > America > History.
Enslaved persons > America > Social conditions.
Slave trade > America > History.
Slavery > Political aspects > America > History.
Slavery > America > History.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Amérique > Histoire.
Progrès > Aspect social > Amérique > Histoire.
Vie dans les plantations > Amérique > Histoire.
Esclaves > Amérique > Conditions sociales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Antislavery movements.
British colonies.
Plantation life.
Progress > Social aspects.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Slavery > Political aspects.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History.
America > History > To 1810.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amérique > Histoire.
Amérique > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1810.
America.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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