House Divided
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Abolitionism
American Anti-Slavery Society
American Colonization Society
American Letter Mail Company
American Slavery as It Is
Approbation
Benjamin Lundy
Bill Cosby
Black Patriot
Blacklisting
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Code Noir
Compromise of 1850
Crime
Curse of Ham
Demagogue
Despotism
Divine right of kings
Dred Scott
Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Free negro
Free the Slaves
Freeman (Colonial)
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
George Fitzhugh
Guilty Men
Haitian Revolution
House of correction
Interracial marriage
Involuntary servitude
Jr.
Letter of marque
Lewis Tappan
Lydia Maria Child
Lysander Spooner
Martin Luther King
Montgomery bus boycott
Of Education
Of Human Bondage
Oppression
Peculiar institution
Phrenology
Preston Brooks
Puritans
Racial segregation in the United States
Racism
Racism in the United States
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rebuke
Religion
Revolution
Ridicule
Rights of Man
Self-made man
Slave and free states
Slave catcher
Slave Power
Slave rebellion
Slavery
Slavery in the United States
Social contract
Special rights
Stephen A. Douglas
Superiority (short story)
The Day of Doom
The Iron Heel
The Philosopher
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Thomas Clarkson
We Shall Overcome
Wickedness
William Lloyd Garrison
Product details
- ISBN 9780691002286
- Weight: 822g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print. Mason Lowance's introduction is an excellent overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. Lowance also introduces each selection, locating it historically, culturally, and thematically as well as linking it to other writings. The documents represent the full scope of the varied debates over slavery.
They include examples of race theory, Bible-based arguments for and against slavery, constitutional analyses, writings by former slaves and women's rights activists, economic defenses and critiques of slavery, and writings on slavery by such major writers as William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Together they give readers a real sense of the complexity and heat of the vexed conversation that increasingly dominated American discourse as the country moved from early nationhood into its greatest trial.
Mason I. Lowance, Jr., is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of "The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists" and "Increase Mather" and the editor of "Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader" and "The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin".
