1st Edition

Slavery in North America Vol 3 From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems.

    Volume 3: Imagining, Managing and Depicting Southern Slavery Alexander Edwards (comp.), Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston (1802) Virginia Cary, Letters on Female Character (1828) G. S. S., ‘Sketches of the South Santee’, American Monthly Magazine (1836) Foby, ‘Management of Servants’, Southern Cultivator (1853) ‘Songs of the Slave’, Lippincott’s Magazine (1868) Slavery, Race and Southern Intellectual Culture [William Thomas], Th e Enemies of the Constitution Discovered (1835) William Cost Johnson, Speech of William Cost Johnson, of Maryland, on the Subject of the Rejection of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery (1840) Nathaniel Russell Middleton, Address Delivered Before the Chrestomathic Society of the College of Charleston (1849) [Louisa McCord], ‘Negro and White Slavery – Wherein do they Differ?’, Southern Quarterly Review (1851) Samuel Galloway, Ergonomy; or, Industrial Science (1853) Leonidas W. Spratt, Speech upon the Foreign Slave Trade (1858) H. O. R., Th e Governing Race (1860) Religion and Slavery George W. Freeman, Th e Rights and Duties of Slave-Holders (1837) Henry C. Wright, Duty of Abolitionists to Pro-Slavery Ministers and Churches (1841) John B. Adger, Th e Religious Instruction of the Black Population (1847) Slavery, Law and Politics Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, A Discourse on the Dangers that Threaten the Free Institutions of the United States (1841) Daniel Whitaker, ‘Th e Rights of the South’, Whitaker’s Magazine (1850) State v. Elias (1859)