Amelioration and empire [electronic resource] : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas / Christa Dierksheide.
Material type: TextSeries: Jeffersonian America | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780813936222
- 0813936225
- Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History
- Antislavery movements -- America -- History
- Progress -- Social aspects -- America -- History
- Plantation life -- America -- History
- Slaves -- America -- Social conditions
- Slave trade -- America -- History
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- America -- History
- Slavery -- America -- History
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History
- America -- History -- To 1810
- HT1048 .D54 2014
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.
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