Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas /
Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-
Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (280 pages) - Jeffersonian America . - Jeffersonian America. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.
English.
9780813936222 (electronic bk.) 0813936225 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; acid-free paper)
22573/ctt8013w0 JSTOR
To 1810
Antislavery movements--History.--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--History.--America
Progress--Social aspects--History.--America
Plantation life--History.--America
Slaves--Social conditions.--America
Slave trade--History.--America
Slavery--Political aspects--History.--America
Slavery--History.--America
Mouvements antiesclavagistes--Histoire.--Amérique
Progrès--Aspect social--Histoire.--Amérique
Vie dans les plantations--Histoire.--Amérique
Esclaves--Conditions sociales.--Amérique
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
HISTORY--Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)--United States
Antislavery movements.
British colonies.
Plantation life.
Progress--Social aspects.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Slavery--Political aspects.
Slaves--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Colonies--History.--America
America--History--To 1810.
Grande-Bretagne--Colonies--Histoire.--Amérique
Amérique--Histoire--Jusqu'à 1810.
America.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
HT1048 / .D54 2014
306.362097
Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (280 pages) - Jeffersonian America . - Jeffersonian America. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher.
English.
9780813936222 (electronic bk.) 0813936225 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; acid-free paper)
22573/ctt8013w0 JSTOR
To 1810
Antislavery movements--History.--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--History.--America
Progress--Social aspects--History.--America
Plantation life--History.--America
Slaves--Social conditions.--America
Slave trade--History.--America
Slavery--Political aspects--History.--America
Slavery--History.--America
Mouvements antiesclavagistes--Histoire.--Amérique
Progrès--Aspect social--Histoire.--Amérique
Vie dans les plantations--Histoire.--Amérique
Esclaves--Conditions sociales.--Amérique
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
HISTORY--Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)--United States
Antislavery movements.
British colonies.
Plantation life.
Progress--Social aspects.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Slavery--Political aspects.
Slaves--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Colonies--History.--America
America--History--To 1810.
Grande-Bretagne--Colonies--Histoire.--Amérique
Amérique--Histoire--Jusqu'à 1810.
America.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
HT1048 / .D54 2014
306.362097