Slavery and Emancipation (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History)

Slavery and Emancipation......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction......Page 19
Introduction......Page 28
Document A: The First Blacks Arrive in Virginia (1619)......Page 31
Document B: Slavery Becomes a Legal Fact in Virginia (17th-Century Statutes)......Page 32
Document C: South Carolina Restricts the Liberty of Slaves (1740)......Page 34
Article: Two Infant Slave Societies in the Chesapeake and the Lowcountry......Page 36
Introduction......Page 53
Document A: A Runaway Ad from the Virginia Gazette (1767)......Page 55
Document B: Olaudah Equiano Describes his Capture (1789)......Page 56
Document C: Venture Smith Describes his Childhood as a Domestic Slave (1798)......Page 59
Article: The Plantation Generations of African Americans......Page 60
Introduction......Page 73
Document A: William Byrd II Describes the Patriarchal Ideal (1726)......Page 75
Document B: Landon Carter Describes the Business of Tobacco Planting (1770)......Page 76
Document C: Philip Fithian Visits Virginia’s Planter Elite (1773- 1774)......Page 79
Article: Masters and Mistresses in Colonial Virginia......Page 81
Introduction......Page 105
Document A: Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation Freeing Slaves in Virginia (1775)......Page 108
Document B: George Corbin’s Manumission of Slaves by Will (1787)......Page 109
Document C: Thomas Jefferson Expresses his Unease over Slavery (1794)......Page 110
Article: Slavery and the American Revolution......Page 114
Introduction......Page 141
Document A: Joseph Baldwin on Society in Alabama and Mississippi (1835-1837)......Page 144
Document B: James Henry Hammond on Agriculture in Virginia (1841)......Page 147
Document C: Frederick Law Olmsted on the Profitability of Cotton (1861)......Page 149
Article: Debating the Profitability of Antebellum Southern Agriculture......Page 151
Introduction......Page 164
Document A: John Lyde Wilson’s Rules of the Code of Honor (1838)......Page 167
Document B: George Fitzhugh on the Benefits of Slavery (1857)......Page 169
Document C: George Cary Eggleston Remembers the Aristocratic Life in Antebellum Virginia (1875)......Page 171
Article: The Slaveholders’ Dilemma between Bondage and Progress......Page 173
Introduction......Page 195
Document A: Adele Petigru Allston is Reminded of the Mistress’ Duties by her Aunt (ca. 1830s)......Page 198
Document B: Rosalie Roos Describes Courtship in Charleston (1854)......Page 199
Document C: Mary Chesnut Describes the Effects of Patriarchy (1861)......Page 200
Article: Plantation Mistresses’ Attitudes toward Slavery in South Carolina......Page 203
Introduction......Page 224
Document A: James Henry Hammond Battles Slave Illness (1841)......Page 226
Document B: Rules on the Rice Estate of Plowden C. Weston, South Carolina (1846)......Page 228
Document C: Charles Manigault Instructs his Overseer about “My Negroes” (1848)......Page 230
Article: Paternalism and Exploitation in the Antebellum Slave Market......Page 232
Introduction......Page 251
Document A: Frederick Douglass Remembers his Childhood (1845)......Page 254
Document B: Tempie Herndon Remembers her Wedding (ca. 1850)......Page 256
Document C: William Cullen Bryant Recollects a Corn-Shucking Ceremony (1850)......Page 258
Article: Slave Marriage and Family Relations in Antebellum Virginia......Page 260
Introduction......Page 283
Document A: The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)......Page 286
Document B: Frederick Douglass Remembers Resisting Mr. Covey (1845)......Page 288
Document C: Frederick Law Olmsted on Runaway Slaves in Virginia (1861)......Page 290
Article: The Impact of Runaway Slaves on the Slave System......Page 292
Introduction......Page 312
Document A: William Lloyd Garrison, “I Will Be Heard” (1831)......Page 315
Document B: The American Anti-Slavery Society’s Declaration of Sentiments (1833)......Page 317
Document C. Frederick Douglass Discusses the Fourth of July (1852)......Page 320
Article: Abolitionists and the Origins of Racial Equality......Page 322
Introduction......Page 334
Document A: John C. Calhoun on States’ Rights and Nullification (1828)......Page 337
Document B: Free-Soil Democrat Walt Whitman’s View on Slavery and the Mexican War (1847)......Page 340
Document C: Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech (1858)......Page 342
Article: Slavery and Territorial Expansion......Page 344
Introduction......Page 363
Document A: South Carolina’s Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession (1860)......Page 366
Document B: Mary Chesnut Recalls the Beginning of the Civil War (1861)......Page 368
Document C: Sarah Morgan Defends Slavery against Lincoln’s Plan for Emancipation (1862)......Page 370
Article: Confederate Women in the Crisis of the Slaveholding South......Page 372
Introduction......Page 395
Document A: Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (1863)......Page 398
Document B: Frederick Douglass, “Men of Color, To Arms” (1863)......Page 400
Document C: Statement of a “Colored Man” (September 1863)......Page 403
Article: The Destruction of Slavery in the Confederate Territories......Page 405
Index......Page 419