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A Self-Evident Lie : Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom
A Self-Evident Lie explores and underscores the fear and complex meaning of "slavery" to northerners before the Civil War. Many northerners asked: If slavery was the beneficent and paternalistic institution that southerners claimed, could it not be applied with equal morality to whites as...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Kent State University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Badge of Freedom?; 1. The Myth of the Free-State Democrat; 2. Inferiority; 3. The Good of the Slave; 4. The Good of Society; 5. The Slaveocracy; 6. Southerners and the Principle of Universal Liberty; 7. Republicans, Northern Democrats, and the Principle of Universal Liberty; Notes; Bibliography; Index.