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

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slavery > Political aspects.
Slavery.
Slave trade.
Progress > Social aspects.
Plantation life.
British colonies.
Antislavery movements.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Esclaves > Amerique > Conditions sociales.
Vie dans les plantations > Amerique > Histoire.
Progres > Aspect social > Amerique > Histoire.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Amerique > Histoire.
Slavery > America > History.
Slavery > Political aspects > America > History.
Slave trade > America > History.
Slaves > America > Social conditions.
Plantation life > America > History.
Progress > Social aspects > America > History.
Antislavery movements > America > History.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain.
America.
Amerique > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1810.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amerique > Histoire.
America > History > To 1810.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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