Deliver us from evil
Subtitle: the slavery question in the old South
By: Lacy K. Ford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 673
ISBN-13: 9780195118094
Subjects: Whites; Attitudes; Slavery; History
Description: Illuminates the white South's efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Draws heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1: The Upper South's travail.; title: Owning slaves, disowning slavery ;; title: Rebellion and reaction -- -- pt. 2: The Lower South's embrace of slavery.; title: Opening the slave trade ;; title: Extending slavery -- -- pt. 3: Paternalism rising.; title: Paternalism emerges ;; title: Paternalism contested -- -- pt. 4:; title: Paternalism in crisis.; title: Scare ;; title: Analyzing the scare ;; title: Reacting to the scare -- -- pt. 5: Words and deeds.; title: Discourses of colonization ;; title: Rumors and insurrection -- -- pt. 6: Upper South responds.; title: Upper South debates slavery and colonization ;; title: Tennessee debates slavery ;; title: Ending free Black suffrage in North Carolina -- -- pt. 7: The lower South responds.; title: Reaction in the lower South ;; title: Abolition poison and Southern antidotes ;; title: Ideological reconfiguration of slavery in the lower South.