Introduction : a transatlantic perspective on the problem of proslavery thought -- George Whitefield, 1740 -- Alexander Garden, 1740 -- Thomas Bacon, 1749 -- Samuel Davies, 1757 -- William Knox, 1768 -- Petition to the Virginia Assembly, 1785 -- Henry Pattillo, 1787 -- William Graham, 1796 -- Edmund Botsford, 1808 -- William Meade, 1813 -- William Smith, 1818, 1820 -- Richard Furman, 1823 -- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1829
Summary
Even then the theorists included in this anthology emphasized the extent to which southern slaveholders' claims to mastery were rooted in a Western moral tradition that reached back to antiquity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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