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This new edition of Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South introduces the vast number of ways in which educated Southern thinkers and theorists

Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by L

The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.

Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition. Slavery, however, was entrenched