TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dierksheide,Christa
TI  - Amelioration and empire: progress and slavery in the plantation Americas 
T2  - Jeffersonian America
SN  - 9780813936222
AV  - HT1048 .D54 2014
U1  - 306.362097 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - America
KW  - Progress
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Mouvements antiesclavagistes
KW  - Amérique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Progrès
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Vie dans les plantations
KW  - Esclaves
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
KW  - fast
KW  - British colonies
KW  - Colonies
KW  - To 1810
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Jusqu'à 1810
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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ER  -