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Deliver Us from Evil - The Slavery Question in the Old South (Hardcover)
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Deliver Us from Evil - The Slavery Question in the Old South (Hardcover)
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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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