Lectures on the philosophy and practice of slavery
Subtitle: as exhibited in the institution of domestic slavery in the United States : with the duties of masters to slaves
By: Smith, William A. (William Andrew), 1802-1870 ; ed. by Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond), 1812-1882
Contributors: Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond), 1812-1882; Randolph-Macon College; 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: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery; Justification; Slavery in the Bible; Black race
Other titles: Philosophy and practice of slavery.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Essays that treat the topic of slavery in many ways, especially finding validity for slavery as an abstract principle, both as instituted by the Bible and as a reflection of the authoritarian bases of religious and civil government. Smith argues for the fitness of the system to supply the needs and cater to the limited abilities of slaves, arguing against the idea of equal rights for unequal people. He refutes emancipation, warning that civil chaos would result, asserting that the slave system is beneficial for all Southerners and is related to the greater stability of the South versus the North. The last essay lays out the responsibilities of slave-owners to ask for reasonable work and to provide all the necessities of life to the slave.
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Transcribed from: Lectures on the philosophy and practice of slavery : as exhibited in the institution of domestic slavery in the United States : with the duties of masters to slaves / by William A. Smith. D.D., President of Randolph-Macon College, and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy ; edited by Thomas O. Summers, D.D. Nashville, Tenn. : Stevenson and Evans, 1856. 328 p. ; 20 cm. Running title : Philosophy and practice of slavery. Text contains "the substance of lectures on the subject of Domestic Slavery in the United States, ... delivered to the classes in Moral Science in Randolph Macon College."--P. vii.

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