A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865

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Mason I. Lowance
Princeton University Press, 26/01/2003 - 492 páginas

This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print.


Mason Lowance's introduction is an excellent overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. Lowance also introduces each selection, locating it historically, culturally, and thematically as well as linking it to other writings. The documents represent the full scope of the varied debates over slavery. They include examples of race theory, Bible-based arguments for and against slavery, constitutional analyses, writings by former slaves and women's rights activists, economic defenses and critiques of slavery, and writings on slavery by such major writers as William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Together they give readers a real sense of the complexity and heat of the vexed conversation that increasingly dominated American discourse as the country moved from early nationhood into its greatest trial.

 

Índice

VII
1
VIII
10
IX
15
X
20
XI
31
XII
33
XIII
43
XIV
51
XXXVII
234
XXXVIII
249
XL
266
XLI
268
XLII
273
XLIII
283
XLIV
284
XLV
299

XV
61
XVI
81
XVII
88
XVIII
91
XIX
97
XX
104
XXI
112
XXII
116
XXIII
121
XXIV
126
XXV
128
XXVI
141
XXVII
146
XXVIII
156
XXIX
162
XXX
164
XXXI
177
XXXII
186
XXXIII
195
XXXIV
203
XXXV
215
XXXVI
225
XLVI
310
XLVII
311
XLVIII
327
XLIX
335
L
352
LI
363
LII
379
LIII
391
LIV
395
LV
404
LVI
420
LVII
422
LVIII
441
LIX
446
LX
449
LXI
455
LXII
458
LXIII
462
LXIV
467
LXV
474
LXVI
485

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Página xv - Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Página xv - I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Página xvi - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página xv - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Acerca do autor (2003)

Mason I. Lowance, Jr., is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists and Increase Mather and the editor of Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader and The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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