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This book assembled in one place the intellectual, social, religious and moral justifications for slavery in the old South, probably for the first time since the Civil War Cited by: Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) [Finkelman, Paul] Cited by: Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents.

Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition.

Slavery, however, was entrenched in the South and remained integral to American politics and culture/5. This new edition of Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South introduces the vast number of ways in which educated Southern thinkers and theorists defended the institution of slavery.

This book collects and explores the elaborately detailed pro-slavery arguments rooted in religion, law, politics, science, and cturer: Bedford/St.

Martin's. Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Paul : Paperback. Offering invaluable insights into how slavery shaped American history and continues to affect American society, Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South shares viewpoints from proslavery, Southern thinkers based on religion, politics and law, economics, history, philosophy, expediency, and : Paul Finkelman.

Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South. Excerpt. Long before the first settlements were made in the western hemisphere the arguments in justification of the social institution of domestic slavery had become hackneyed.

Slavery, as ancient in the history of the world as society itself, early became the subject of philosophic inquiry. Buy Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South 03 edition () by NA for up to 90% off at Edition:   Slavery, however, was entrenched in the South and remained integral to American politics and culture.

Nationally, it was protected by the U.S. Constitution, federal laws, and Supreme Court decisions, and slaveowners dominated all three branches of the federal government.3/5(2).

Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition. Slavery, however, was entrenched in the South and remained integral to American politics and culture.

Nationally, it was protected by the U.S. Constitution, federal laws, and Supreme Court decisions, and slaveowners dominated all three branches of the federal. This new edition of Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South introduces the vast number of ways in which educated Southern thinkers and theorists defended the institution of slavery.

This book collects and explores the elaborately detailed pro-slavery arguments rooted in religion, law, politics, science, and economics. Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South A Brief History with Documents First Edition | © New Edition Available Paul Finkelman Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition.

Southern pro-slavery theorists felt that this class of landless poor was inherently transient and easily manipulated, and as such often destabilized society as a whole. Thus, the greatest threat to democracy was seen as coming from class warfare that destabilized a nation's economy, society, government.

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