Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
PART ONE Introduction: Defending Slavery
Northerners, Southerners, and Slavery
The Legitimacy of Slavery in Earlier TimesThe Emergence of Slavery in Early AmericaThe American Revolution Threatens SlaveryThe Emergence of Proslavery ThoughtThe Outlines of Antebellum Proslavery ThoughtRacial Theory and Ideology: The Key to Proslavery Thought PART TWO
The Documents Politics, Economics, and Proslavery Thought
1. Thomas Jefferson,
Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787
2. John C. Calhoun,
Speech in the U.S. Senate, 1837
3. Edmund Ruffin,
The Political Economy of Slavery, 1853
4. Thomas R. R. Cobb,
Effects of Abolition in the United States, 1858
5. James Henry Hammond,
The Mudsill Speech, 1858
6. Alexander Stephens,
The Cornerstone Speech, 1861
Religion and Slavery 7. Reverend A.T. Holmes,
The Duties of Christian Masters, 1851
8. DeBow’s Review,
Slavery and the Bible, 1850
9. Protestant Episcopal Convention of South Carolina,
Duty of Clergymen in Relation to the Marriage of Slaves, 1859
10. Thornton Stringfellow,
The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery in the Light of Divine Revelation, 1860
The Law in Defense of Slavery 11. North Carolina Supreme Court,
State v. Mann (Opinion of Thomas Ruffin), 1829
12. U.S. Supreme Court,
Dred Scott v. Sandford (Opinion of Roger B. Taney), 1857
13. Thomas R. R. Cobb,
What Is Slavery, and Its Foundation in the Natural Law, 1858
Racial Theory and Slavery 14. Samuel Cartwright,
Report on the Diseases of and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race, 1851
15. William J. Grayson,
The Hireling and the Slave, 1854
16. George Fitzhugh,
Sociology for the South, 1854, and
Cannibals All! 1857
17. Josiah C. Nott,
Instincts of Races, 1866
Appendixes A Slavery Chronology (1619-1870)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index