Format:
1 Online-Ressource (322 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0813149568
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081312252X
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9780813149561
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9780813122526
Content:
In Kentucky, the slavery debate raged for thirty years before the Civil War began. While whites in the lower South argued that slavery was good for master and slave, many white Kentuckians maintained that because of racial prejudice, public safety, and property rights, slavery was necessary but undeniably evil. Harold D. Tallant shows how this view bespoke a real ambivalence about the desirability of continuing slavery in Kentucky and permitted an active abolitionist movement in the state to exist alongside contented slaveholders. Though many Kentuckians were increasingly willing to defend sla
Content:
Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Necessary Evil; 2 The Colonizationist Imperative; 3 The Dilemma of Conservative Reform; 4 The Limits of Political Action; 5 The Crisis at the Door; 6 The Crossroads; 7 The Quest for Righteousness; 8 The Relevance and Irrelevance of John G. Fee; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tallant, Harold D Evil Necessity : Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 ISBN 9780813122526
Language:
English
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