Slavery in the United States. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Slavery in the United States of America
• Further Information: Note: Louis Filler ; with a new introduction by the author.
• Other Names: Filler, Louis, 1911-1998
• Contents: Pt. I. Slavery in Theory and Practice. 1. The New World and Slavery. 2. Negroes and Slavery. 3. The "Peculiar Institution" 4. Effects of Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Eras. 5. Stabilizing the Slave System. 6. Spanish and American Slavery Compared. 7. Slavery as a "Positive Good" 8. Slavery as a Way of Life. 9. The Challenge of Freedom. 10. The Verdict of War. 11. The Continuing Debate -- Pt. II. Readings. 1. Andrew Jackson Seeks a Runaway. 2. Indian Slavers. 3. The Slave Trader: His Life and Outlook. 4. James Fenimore Cooper on Slavery in New York. 5. Frederick Law Olmsted: An Antislavery Opinion in North Carolina. 6. Emancipation Proclamation: What It Did and Did Not Do. 7. "Codes" and the Negro: Their Purpose and Variety. 8. The Northern Response to Freedmen. 9. Conditions Affecting Slavery: Illinois and the West Indies. 10. A Slave Defends Slavery. 11. John J. Audubon Encounters a Runaway. 12. John C. Calhoun Responds to Abolitionists. 13. The Free Negro: His Enslavement. 14. Colonization and the Free Negro. 15. Colonization and the Slave. 16. The Folklore of Rebellion: The Appeal of Nat Turner. 17. A Foreign View: Charles Dickens on Slavery. 18. Frances Anne Kemble: An Insider's View of Slavery? 19. William Wells Brown: Pictures of Slave Life. 20. William Still: Chronicles of Enslavement. 21. Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Sale of Uncle Tom. 22. The Border States: A Slave's Wedding. 23. Slavery for Northerners: A Proposal. 24. The Proslavery Answer to British Criticism. 25. Henry Clay: What Is to Be Done? 26. Frederick Douglass on "The Slavery Party" 27. Hinton Rowan Helper: Slavery Renounced. 28. Emancipation: The Confederate Program. 29. Slavery in Retrospect: The Freedman. 30. Slavery in Retrospect: Henry A. Wise Assayed. 31. The Continuing Problem of Slavery: The Case of Liberia. 32. The Continuing Problem of Slavery: The United Nations.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (165 pages)
• Subjects: 306.3/62/0973; Slavery -- United States -- History; Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources; Slavery; Geschichte; Sklaverei; United States; USA; History; Sources; Quelle
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351306508; 1351306502
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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