Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829: An Anthology

In Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829, Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled thirteen texts that reveal thedevelopment of proslavery perspectives across the colonial and earlynational South, from Maryland to Georgia. The tracts, lectures, sermons, and petitions in this volume demonstrate that defenses ofhuman bondage had a history in southern thought that long predatedthe later antebellum era traditionally associated with the genesis ofsuch positive defenses of slavery. Previous anthologies, notably DrewGilpin Faust's The Ideology of Slavery, have made the antebellumperspectives of slavery's defenders widely available to scholars andstudents, but earlier proslavery thinkers have remained largelyinaccessible to modern reader