Proslavery and sectional thought in the early South, 1740-1829
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Jeffrey Robert Young.
Contributors: Young, Jeffrey Robert.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781570036163; 9781570036170
Subjects: Slavery -- Southern States -- Justification -- Sources.; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- Sources.; Sectionalism (United States) -- History -- Sources.; Slavery and the church -- Southern States -- History -- Sources.; Racism -- Southern States -- History -- Sources.; Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.; Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.; Southern States -- Politics and government -- To 1775 -- Sources.; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865 -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a transatlantic perspective on the problem of proslavery thought; title: George Whitefield, 1740; title: Alexander Garden, 1740; title: Thomas Bacon, 1749; title: Samuel Davies, 1757; title: William Knox, 1768; title: Petition to the Virginia Assembly, 1785; title: Henry Pattillo, 1787; title: William Graham, 1796; title: Edmund Botsford, 1808; title: William Meade, 1813; title: William Smith, 1818, 1820; title: Richard Furman, 1823; title: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1829.