Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

Cover......Page 1
WITHOUT CONSENT OR CONTRACT......Page 4
PUBLISHER'S NOTE......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
FOREWORD: DISCOVERIES AND DILEMMAS......Page 10
PART ONE: SLAVERY AS AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SYSTEM......Page 16
THE ORIGINS OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE......Page 18
SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW WORLD SLAVERY......Page 22
SOME SPECIAL ASPECTS OF THE EVOLUTION OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 30
THE CONTEST BETWEEN SLAVE AND FREE LABOR......Page 35
SOME OCCUPATIONAL PATTERNS......Page 42
THE EFFECT OF GENDER, STATURE, AND COLOR ON THE ALLOCATION OF ELITE OCCUPATIONS......Page 46
THE AVAILABILITY OF ELITE OCCUPATIONS......Page 50
THE LIFE CYCLE IN OCCUPATIONS......Page 53
THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HIERARCHY......Page 59
3. UNRAVELING SOME ECONOMIC RIDDLES......Page 61
PROFITS AND PROSPECTS IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES AND THE UNITED STATES......Page 62
A FLEXIBLE, HIGHLY DEVELOPED FORM OF CAPITALISM......Page 65
THE RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF SLAVE LABOR......Page 73
THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH......Page 82
THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE SOUTH, 1840-1880......Page 85
THE CAPACITY TO REALLOCATE RESOURCES BETWEEN REGIONS......Page 90
THE CAPACITY TO REALLOCATE RESOURCES BETWEEN CROPS......Page 93
THE ROLE OF THE COTTON BOOM......Page 97
CHANGES IN THE PRODUCTIVITY OF SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE, 1840-1880......Page 99
THE LAG IN SOUTHERN INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION......Page 103
EXPLAINING THE LAG IN SOUTHERN INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION......Page 108
RECENT CRITICISMS OF CLIOMETRIC APPROACHES TO THE QUESTION OF SOUTHERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT......Page 112
DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES IN THE POLITICS OF THE NEW NATIONAL STATES......Page 115
DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SLAVERY......Page 117
POPULATION TRENDS......Page 124
MORTALITY......Page 128
ASSESSING THE AVERAGE DIETS OF SLAVES......Page 133
ANTHROPOMETRIC INDEXES OF MALNUTRITION......Page 139
FETAL AND CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION AND THEIR AFFECT ON SLAVE MORTALITY......Page 143
FERTILITY......Page 148
6. CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS OF SLAVE CULTURE......Page 155
THE WORK ETHIC OF SLAVES AND THEIR MODES OF RESISTANCE......Page 156
THE SEXUAL MORES AND FAMILY NORMS OF SLAVES......Page 163
THE AUTONOMY AND UNIFORMITY OF SLAVE CULTURE......Page 169
SOURCES AND PERCEPTIONS......Page 176
THE BALANCE OF POWER......Page 187
PART TWO: THE IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST SLAVERY......Page 200
7. THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN......Page 202
THE RISE OF THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE CENTURY OF EMANCIPATION......Page 203
BACKGROUND OF THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT......Page 209
THE CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH THE SLAVE TRADE......Page 212
THE CAMPAIGN FOR EMANCIPATION......Page 219
THE STRUGGLE TO ABOLISH SLAVERY ''THROUGHOUT THE WORLD"......Page 234
8. THE AMERICAN CAMPAIGN: From the Revolution to the Abolitionist Crusade......Page 239
THE REVOLUTION AND THE DESPIRITUALIZATION OF ANTISLAVERY......Page 241
THE PROSLAVERY OFFENSIVE AND THE DECLINE OF THE FIRST ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT......Page 245
THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING......Page 255
MORAL REFORM AND EVANGELICAL ZEAL......Page 260
THE ABOLITIONIST CRUSADE......Page 265
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CRUSADE......Page 266
ABOLITIONIST THEOLOGY AND DENOMINATIONAL SCHISMS......Page 270
DISARRAY AND NEW DIRECTIONS......Page 277
BARRIERS TO ANTISLAVERY POLITICS......Page 282
THE ORIGINS OF THE TERRITORIAL ISSUE......Page 288
THE SECTIONALIST MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH......Page 295
THE DESTABILIZATION OF THE SECOND AMERICAN PARTY SYSTEM......Page 302
DESTABILIZING EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH......Page 303
DESTABILIZING EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION......Page 310
THE EMERGENCE OF A NATIVIST POLITICAL PARTY......Page 314
THE SEARCH FOR NEW ISSUES AND NEW ALIGNMENTS AMONG THE WHIGS......Page 317
10. THE AMERICAN CAMPAIGN: Forging a Victorious Antislavery Coalition......Page 321
THE BROADENING OF THE ANTISLAVERY APPEAL......Page 323
THE INDICTMENT OF SOUTHERN MORALITY AND CULTURE......Page 325
CONSTITUTIONAL RATIONALIZATIONS FOR FEDERAL ACTION AGAINST SLAVERY......Page 330
RESISTING THE POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES OF THE "SLAVE POWER"......Page 339
RESISTING THE ECONOMIC CONSPIRACIES OF THE "SLAVE POWER"......Page 345
THE "HIDDEN" DEPRESSION AND THE POLITICAL REVOLT OF THE NORTHERN WORKERS......Page 355
THE TRIPLE CRISIS FOR NATIVE, NON-FARM WORKERS IN THE NORTH, 1848-1855......Page 356
THE POLITICAL REVOLT OF NORTHERN NATIVE WORKERS......Page 363
THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE POLITICAL BREAKAWAY......Page 370
THE PRECARIOUS VICTORY OF THE ANTISLAVERY COALITION......Page 382
AFTERWORD: THE MORAL PROBLEM OF SLAVERY......Page 389
TOWARD A MODERN INDICTMENT......Page 394
A DILEMMA AND A PARADOX......Page 407
THE MORAL PROBLEM OF THE CIVIL WAR......Page 412
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 419
FOREWORD......Page 424
CHAPTER 1......Page 425
CHAPTER 2......Page 430
CHAPTER 3......Page 433
CHAPTER 4......Page 436
CHAPTER 5......Page 442
CHAPTER 6......Page 450
CHAPTER 7......Page 456
CHAPTER 8......Page 460
CHAPTER 9......Page 466
CHAPTER 10......Page 474
AFTERWORD......Page 482
REFERENCES......Page 488
INDEX......Page 526
Back Cover......Page 541