Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide.

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Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Jeffersonian AmericaPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813936222
0813936225

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas.DDC classification:

306.362097 23

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HT1048 .D54 2014

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Contents:

Introduction -- I. Virginia -- "The great improvement and civilization of that race" -- "The desideratum is to diminish the Blacks and increase the Whites" -- II. South Carolina -- "Rising gradations to unlimited freedom" -- "The enormous evil that has haunted the imaginations of men" -- III. The British West Indies -- "We may alleviate, though we cannot cure" -- "A matter of portentous magnitude, and still more portentous -- Difficulty" -- Conclusion: Amelioration and empire, ca. 1845.

Scope and content: "This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.