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A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches, Lacy K. Ford recaptures the varied and sometimes contradictory ideas and attitudes held by groups of white southerners as they tried to square slavery with their democratic ideals. He excels at conveying the political, intellectual, economic, and social thought of leading white southerners, vividly recreating the mental world of the varied actors and capturing the vigorous debates over slavery. He also shows that there was not one antebellum South but many, and not one southern white mindset but several, with the debates over slavery in the upper South quite different in substance from those in the deep South. In the upper South, where tobacco had fallen into comparative decline by 1800, debate often centered on how the area might reduce its dependence on slave labor and

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• Plný název: Deliver Us from Evil
• Podnázev: The Slavery Question in the Old South
• Autor: Lacy Ford
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 688
• EAN: 9780199832439
• ISBN: 0199832439
• ID: 04536215
• Nakladatelství: Oxford University Press Inc
• Hmotnost: 1051 g
• Rozměry: 233 × 154 × 43 mm
• Datum vydání: 29. March 2012

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