In Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South; 1740-1829; Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled thirteen texts that reveal the development of proslavery perspectives across the colonial and early national South; from Maryland to Georgia. The tracts; lectures; sermons; and petitions in this volume demonstrate that defenses of human bondage had a history in southern thought that long predated the later antebellum era traditionally associated with the genesis of such positive defenses of slavery. Only in the early nineteenth century-with the rise of an increasingly influential abolition movement-did proslavery thinkers begin to justify their beliefs with approaches that underscored differences between North and South. Even then the theorists included in this anthology emphasized the extent to which southern slaveholders' claims to mastery were rooted in a Western moral tradition that reached back to antiquity.
#4837128 in Books Jason Aronson; Inc. 1996-01-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .62 x 6.10 x 9.03l; .82 #File Name: 1568218877256 pages
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Heidi E. NewmarkIt's great.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A work for all who love TorahBy Shalom FreedmanThis is a wonderful work for all those who love Torah. It gives a brief life ; and some excerpts from the work of the Great Torah commentators. Rabbi Finkel also characterizes and thus illuminates their commentary. Names which students of Torah use all the time here take on new life; and become those of living and suffering human beings. The work is divided into the following sections; 1) Torah 2) Mishnah Talmud and Midrash 3) Halachah 4) Mussar 5) Chasidism 6 ) Philosophy 7) Kabbalah .There are also pictures of a number of the commentators and this too adds to the pleasure given by this excellent work.
