The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823Oxford University Press, 15.04.1999 - 576 Seiten David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and the second volume of a proposed trilogy, is a truly monumental work of historical scholarship that first appeared in 1975 to critical acclaim both academic and literary. This reprint of that important work includes a new preface by the author, in which he situates the book's argument within the historiographic debates of the last two decades. |
Inhalt
| 9 | |
| 15 | |
| 21 | |
| 23 | |
| 39 | |
The Seats of Power I | 84 |
The Seats of Power II | 113 |
The Boundaries of Idealism | 164 |
The Emancipation of America I | 255 |
The Emancipation of America II | 285 |
The Preservation of English Liberty I | 343 |
The Preservation of English Liberty II | 386 |
Antislavery and the Conflict of Laws | 469 |
The Good Book | 523 |
Toussaint LOuverture and the Phenomenology of Mind | 557 |
| 565 | |
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 David Brion Davis Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 David Brion Davis Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abolition Committee Abolition of Slavery abolitionism abolitionists African slave trade American Revolution Amis des noirs Anthony Benezet arguments Assembly blacks bondage Brissot Britain British Caribbean Carolina cause century Christian Clarkson colonies colonists Congress Constitution Court debate depended Dillwyn Domingue economic Edwards England English enslavement fear force France freedom French Friends gradual emancipation Granville Sharp History Hopkins House human ideology Indian slavery interests issue Jamaica James Jefferson John justice labor later leaders legislature liberty London Lord Manumission master Meeting for Sufferings ment merchants moral Moreau mulattoes natural Negro slavery North NYHS Parliament passim Pemberton Pennsylvania Abolition Society petitions Philadelphia Pitt plantation planters political principles prohibited Quakers question radical reform religious Revolutionary Samuel sanction slave imports slaveholders social Somerset South South Carolina southern Stephen sugar Thomas Thomas Clarkson tion Virginia West Indian West Indies Wilberforce William William Dillwyn York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 9 - ... and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Seite 9 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Seite 12 - A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen : but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
Seite 12 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever...
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