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020 _a9780813936222
020 _a0813936225
020 _z9780813936215 (cloth : acid-free paper)
020 _z0813936217
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aHT1048
_b.D54 2014
100 1 _aDierksheide, Christa,
_d1980-
245 1 0 _aAmelioration and empire
_h[electronic resource] :
_bprogress and slavery in the plantation Americas /
_cChrista Dierksheide.
260 _aCharlottesville :
_bUniversity of Virginia Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490 0 _aJeffersonian America
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aAntislavery movements
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAntislavery movements
_zAmerica
_xHistory.
650 0 _aProgress
_xSocial aspects
_zAmerica
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPlantation life
_zAmerica
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSlaves
_zAmerica
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aSlave trade
_zAmerica
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSlavery
_xPolitical aspects
_zAmerica
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zAmerica
_xHistory.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xColonies
_zAmerica
_xHistory.
651 0 _aAmerica
_xHistory
_yTo 1810.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813936222/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c30927
_d30927