Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840

by Larry E. Tise

Book Overview

Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the slave-holding South, had its origins in the crucible of conservative New England. And, as Tise shows, when the South did finally embrace proslavery, the region was placed not at the periphery of American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820309273
• ISBN13: 9780820309279
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 501 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.