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Author:

Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-

Title:

Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 279 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--America--History.
Slavery--History.--America--History.
Slave trade--America--History.
Slaves--America--Social conditions.
Plantation life--America--History.
Progress--History.--America--History.
Antislavery movements--America--History.
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.
America--History--To 1810.
Great Britain--History.--America--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) 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.

Summary:

"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Jeffersonian America

ISBN:

0813936217 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780813936215 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)880566272

LCCN:

2014007692

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)