The institution of slavery in the Southern States
Subtitle: religiously and morally considered in connection with our sectional troubles
By: by Bryan Tyson, of North Carolina
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery; Justification; Moral and ethical aspects; Slavery in the Bible; Economic conditions; Slaves; Social conditions; African Americans; History; Peace
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Looks at the question of whether slavery is right or wrong using the Bible and comparing the North to the South. Supports slavery and its continuation, and does not believe that slavery was the cause of the Civil War.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed July 11, 2002)

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from: The institution of slavery in the Southern States : religiously and morally considered in connection with our sectional troubles / by Bryan Tyson, of North Carolina. Washington, D.C. : H. Polkinhorn, Printer, 1863. 60 p. ; 21 cm.

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Bryan Tyson (1830-1909) was a politician, government clerk, and inventor, of Orange County, North Carolina. Tyson was a Controversialist and Unionist. He opposed abolitionism and secessionism. He manufactured farm implements and after the Civil War engaged in a mail contract business and serviced war pension and mail claims against the government. He lived at Brower's Mill and Carthage, N.C.