Slaveholders' Dilemma
Subtitle: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860 (Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series, No. 1)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: February 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780872499959
Subjects: American history; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Southern States; Justification; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - Antebellum Era; Intellectual life; Slaveholders; Slavery
First sentence: The mainstream of modern Western thought has cast slavery and progress as irreconcilable opposites, insisting that slavery impeded progress by restricting the freedom of every individual to contribute to society through the pursuit of self interest.