Amelioration and empire
Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-
Amelioration and empire progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / [electronic resource] : Christa Dierksheide. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Jeffersonian America . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- I. Virginia -- "The great improvement and civilization of that race" -- "The desideratum is to diminish the Blacks and increase the Whites" -- II. South Carolina -- "Rising gradations to unlimited freedom" -- "The enormous evil that has haunted the imaginations of men" -- III. The British West Indies -- "We may alleviate, though we cannot cure" -- "A matter of portentous magnitude, and still more portentous -- Difficulty" -- Conclusion: Amelioration and empire, ca. 1845.
9780813936222 0813936225
Antislavery movements--History.--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--History.--America
Progress--Social aspects--History.--America
Plantation life--History.--America
Slaves--Social conditions.--America
Slave trade--History.--America
Slavery--Political aspects--History.--America
Slavery--History.--America
Great Britain--Colonies--History.--America
America--History--To 1810.
Electronic books.
HT1048 / .D54 2014
Amelioration and empire progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / [electronic resource] : Christa Dierksheide. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Jeffersonian America . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- I. Virginia -- "The great improvement and civilization of that race" -- "The desideratum is to diminish the Blacks and increase the Whites" -- II. South Carolina -- "Rising gradations to unlimited freedom" -- "The enormous evil that has haunted the imaginations of men" -- III. The British West Indies -- "We may alleviate, though we cannot cure" -- "A matter of portentous magnitude, and still more portentous -- Difficulty" -- Conclusion: Amelioration and empire, ca. 1845.
9780813936222 0813936225
Antislavery movements--History.--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--History.--America
Progress--Social aspects--History.--America
Plantation life--History.--America
Slaves--Social conditions.--America
Slave trade--History.--America
Slavery--Political aspects--History.--America
Slavery--History.--America
Great Britain--Colonies--History.--America
America--History--To 1810.
Electronic books.
HT1048 / .D54 2014