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Amelioration and empire progress and slavery in the plantation Americas
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Amelioration and empire [electronic resource] : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide.
ISBN
0813936225
9780813936222
0813936217
9780813936215 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm.)
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Summary
"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 History.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 08, 2014
Series
Jeffersonian America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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