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Sons of the Fathers - The Virginia Slavery Debates of 1831D1832 (Hardcover)
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Sons of the Fathers - The Virginia Slavery Debates of 1831D1832 (Hardcover)
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Erik Root's book, Sons of the Fathers explores the Virginia Slavery
Debate of 1831 1832, conducted in the House of Delegates. This is
possibly the greatest debate to have occurred in any southern state
before the Civil War. The speeches in this book provide, for the
first time ever, an unedited version of that debate where many of
the sons of America's Founders deliberated over the necessity of
emancipating the slaves in Old Dominion. In August 1831, Nat Turner
led the most successful slave rebellion in America's history,
killing some 60 men, women, and children. This insurrection
provided the historical backdrop to the proposal for a gradual
emancipation plan. The forces for emancipation, led by Thomas
Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, were defeated in
the course of the debate as the members of the House of Delegates
rejected that it was a necessity to free the slaves. As a result,
rift between what is now Virginia and Western Virginia developed,
never to heal. Some in the debates believed slaves had the same
rights as every human being. Those who balked at emancipation
diminished slavery as an "evil" and came closer to the view that
the slaves were mere property. They affirmed that the slave was
property and rejected the natural rights grounding of the Founding.
In this collection of primary source material-which consists of the
speeches made public to the press and the people-the reader will be
able to decide just how close the emancipation forces attached
themselves to the "laws of Nature and Nature's God." The reader
will also be able to decipher how far many Virginians departed from
not only the Declaration of Independence, but the Virginia
Declaration of Rights.
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