Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of
slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too
prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an
unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of
life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce
the issue to one of fact and figures, nor does he inject endless
hypotheses and analogues. Rather, this finely etched volume
encompasses the human implications of slavery and its practices. It
emphasizes the distinguished and disreputable elements on both
sides of the slavery relationship, and in every part of the United
States.
Slavery offers peculiar challenges to the student of American
life, past and present. It is unrealistic to avoid the human
implications of slavery and its practice. It is equally unhelpful
to assume glib and partial viewpoints with respect to so
all-embracing a system as slavery became. The cause of progress, no
less than social science, is not advanced by indifference to patent
facts. The civil libertarian who romanticizes black people
indiscriminately, and lumps Jefferson Davis with Simon Legree may
win popularity with enthusiasts and ideologues. But they will soon
find themselves quaint and outmoded.
The author reminds us that "the safest approach to slavery is
to determine what the institution meant to the country at large;
why it flourished as it did, and how it came to be opposed and
overthrown." The work includes high quality often neglected
readings that permit the reader to form his or her own views. It
reveals the best writing on all aspects of the slavery issue, as
well as analytic summations by contemporary historians and social
researchers.
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