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Author Ford, Lacy K.

Title Deliver us from evil : the slavery question in the old south / Lacy K. Ford.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.711 F75    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  973.713 FOR    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  973.713 FO    Check Shelf
Description viii, 673 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Owning slaves, disowning slavery -- Rebellion and reaction -- Opening the slave trade -- Extending slavery -- Paternalism emerges -- Paternalism contested -- The scare -- Analyzing the scare -- Reacting to the scare -- Discourses of colonization -- Rumors and insurrection -- The upper south debates slavery and colonization -- Tennessee debates slavery -- Ending free Black suffrage in North Carolina -- Reaction in the lower south -- Abolition poison and southern antidotes -- The ideological reconfiguration of slavery in the lower south.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [543]-658) and index.
Subject Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
White people -- Southern States -- Attitudes -- History -- 18th century.
White people -- Southern States -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780195118094 hardcover alkaline paper
019511809X hardcover alkaline paper
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