Freedom in a slave society stories from the antebellum South
Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Series: | Cambridge studies on the American South
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Regarding a "weird utopia"
- Self-making in southwestern towns
- The domestic foundations of self-determination
- The voluntary bonds of friendship
- Southwestern histories for a divided market
- Slave characters and the problem of human nature
- Slavery and political trust
- Self-determination and slavery in conflict