Erik S. Root

All Honor to Jefferson?

The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good Thesis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book fills a long neglected hole in American history and political thought. The debate over emancipation in 1829-32, and the success of the pro-slave interests in these debates paved the way for the development of the positive good thesis that was articulated and popularized by John C. Calhoun. These debates were to become a bellweather for the union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780739122181
• ISBN-10: 0739122185
• Artikelnr.: 23541487

Autorenporträt

Erik S. Root is chair of economic philosophy at West Liberty University. He is also the author of All Honor to Jefferson?.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 1 Introduction
Chapter 3 2 Early Anti-Slavery Efforts
Chapter 4 3 Jefferson, Virginia, and the Founders
Chapter 5 4 The Tide Begins to Turn: The Virginia Consitutional Convention
of 1829-1830 and the Attack on Natural Rights
Chapter 6 5 Firebell in the Night: Natural Rights Abandoned
Chapter 7 6 Toward Perpetual Slavery: The Virginia Slavery Debate of
1831-1832
Chapter 8 7 The Proslavery Argument Revisited: Thomas Roderick Dew and the
Beginning of the Positive Good Thesis
Chapter 9 8 Conclusion: Virginia and the Positive Good Thesis
Chapter 10 Bibliography