A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early
republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's
twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the
period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787
through the age of Jackson. Drawing heavily on primary sources,
including newspapers, government documents, legislative records,
pamphlets, and speeches, Lacy K. Ford recaptures the varied and
sometimes contradictory ideas and attitudes held by groups of white
southerners as they tried to square slavery with their democratic
ideals. He excels at conveying the political, intellectual,
economic, and social thought of leading white southerners, vividly
recreating the mental world of the varied actors and capturing the
vigorous debates over slavery. He also shows that there was not one
antebellum South but many, and not one southern white mindset but
several, with the debates over slavery in the upper South quite
different in substance from those in the deep South. In the upper
South, where tobacco had fallen into comparative decline by 1800,
debate often centered on how the area might reduce its dependence
on slave labor and "whiten " itself, whether through gradual
emancipation and colonization or the sale of slaves to the cotton
South. During the same years, the lower South swirled into the
vortex of the "cotton revolution, " and that area's whites lost all
interest in emancipation, no matter how gradual or fully
compensated. An ambitious, thought-provoking, and highly insightful
book, Deliver Us from Evil makes an important contribution to the
history of slavery in the United States, shedding needed light on
the white South's early struggle to reconcile slavery with its
Revolutionary heritage.
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