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001 2008047533
003 DLC
005 20100226085247.0
008 081103s2009 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780195118094 (hardcover : alk. paper) :$c$34.95
020 $a019511809X (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn270131469
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050 00 $aE446$b.F67 2009
082 00 $a973.7/13$222
100 1 $aFord, Lacy K.
245 10 $aDeliver us from evil :$bthe slavery question in the old South /$cLacy K. Ford.
260 $aOxford [England] ;$aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $aviii, 673 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIlluminates the white South's efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Draws heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches.
505 0 $aThe upper South's travail. Owning slaves, disowning slavery ; Rebellion and reaction -- The lower South's embrace of slavery. Opening the slave trade ; Extending slavery -- Paternalism rising. Paternalism emerges ; Paternalism contested -- Paternalism in crisis. The scare ; Analyzing the scare ; Reacting to the scare -- Words and deeds. Discourses of colonization ; Rumors and insurrection -- The upper South responds. The upper South debates slavery and colonization ; Tennessee debates slavery ; Ending free Black suffrage in North Carolina -- The lower South responds. Reaction in the lower South ; Abolition poison and Southern antidotes ; The ideological reconfiguration of slavery in the lower South.
650 0 $aSlavery$zSouthern States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWhites$zSouthern States$xAttitudes$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aWhites$zSouthern States$xAttitudes$xHistory$y19th century.