Title: From homicide to slavery :
Authors: Davis, David Brion.
Date: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: x, 305 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: E
Contents: Violence and Virility in American Culture -- Murder in New Hampshire -- The Movement To Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787-1861 -- Violence in American Literature -- Stress-Seeking and the Self-Made Man in American Literature, 1894-1914 -- The Redeeming West -- Ten-Gallon Hero -- The Deerslayer, A Democratic Knight of the Wilderness: Cooper, 1841 -- Marlboro Country -- Secrets of the Mormons -- Problems of Loyalty and Identity -- Patricide and Regicide -- Some Themes of Counter-Subversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature -- Some Ideological Functions of Prejudice in Ante-Bellum America -- The American Family and Boundaries in Historical Perspective -- Studies in Slavery and Antislavery -- Slavery, and the Post-World War II Historians -- Of Human Bondage -- Out of the Shadows -- New Sidelights on Early Antislavery Radicalism -- The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought -- James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement -- 1821-23 -- 1823-33 -- American Slavery and the American Revolution.
Subject headings (LCSH): National characteristics, American.; Slavery--United States--Historiography.; Slavery--United States.; United States--Race relations.; Violence--United States--History.; West (U.S.)--Civilization.