Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840

Larry E Tise

University of Georgia Press, Sep 1, 2004 - History - 501 pages

Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the slave-holding South, had its origins in the crucible of conservative New England.

Proslavery rhetoric, Tise shows, came late to the South, where the heritage of Jefferson's ideals was strongest and where, as late as the 1830s, most slaveowners would have agreed that slavery was an evil to be removed as soon as possible. When the rhetoric did come, it was often in the portmanteau of ministers who moved south from New England, and it arrived as part of a full-blown ideology. When the South finally did embrace proslavery, the region was placed not at the periphery of American thought but in its mainstream.

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Contents

• Beyond Racism and the Positive Good Argument: 3
• Origins of Proslavery in America 17011808: 12
• Proslaverys Neglected Period 18081832: 41
• Proslavery Heritage of Britain and the West Indies 17701833: 75
• The Positive Good Thesis and Proslavery Arguments in Britain and America 17011861: 97
• American Defenders of Slavery 17901865: 124
• Death of Americas Revolutionary Ideology 17761798: 183
• Launching the Conservative Counterrevolution 17951816: 204
• The Conservative Proslavery Center 18161865: 238
• Emergence of Proslavery Ideology in the North 18311840: 261
• Proliferation of Conservative Ideas in the South 18151835: 286
• Absence of a Southern Ideology for Proslavery 18311835: 308
• The South Becomes Ideologized 18351840: 323
• Proslavery Republicanism: 347
• Proslavery Clergymen: 363
• Proslavery Ideography Codebook: 367
• Notes: 371
• Bibliography: 427
• Illustration Credits: 471
• Index: 475

Popular passages

Page 449 - Society shall be called the American Society for colonizing the free people of colour of the United States.‎

Page 451 - ˇFree remarks on the spirit of the federal constitution, the practice of the federal government, and the obligations of the union, respecting the exclusion of slavery from the territories and new states. By a Philadelphian.‎

About the author

Larry E. Tise, author or editor of several books on southern history, is director of the Benjamin Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840
• Author: Larry E Tise
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0820323969, 9780820323961
• Length: 501 pages
• Subjects: History / Historiography; History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / General; Social Science / Slavery