TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis, David Brion.
TI  - The problem of slavery in the age of Revolution, 1770-1823
T2  - Cornell paperbacks
SN  - 0801408881
AV  - HT867 .D38 1975
U1  - 322.4/4/09033 18
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Ithaca, N.Y.
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Esclavage
KW  - fast
KW  - Sklaverei
KW  - gnd
KW  - Slavernij
KW  - gtt
KW  - Franse Revolutie
KW  - swd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. What the abolitionists were up against : "The problem of slavery in western culture": the argument summarized ; Demographic and economic trends, 1770-1823 ; The shifting interests of slave-trade diplomacy ; War and emancipation -- 2. The seats of power, I : Prospects for reform ; Emancipation in non-slave societies ; Petitioning and representation -- 3. The seats of power, II : The testing of parliamentary supremacy ; Sanction and jurisdiction in the United States: "migration and importation" ; Gestation of the "negative pregnant" ; Jurisdiction in the French revolution: the formula for loss of control ; Expansion and constraint -- 4. The boundaries of idealism :The founding fathers and the debunkers ; Jefferson's uncertain commitment ; Philosophes pf the Caribbean ; The neutralization of antislavery in the south -- 5. The Quaker ethic and the antislavery international : The Quaker initiative ; The solvent of wealth ; William Allen and the limitations of Quaker philosophy ; A preliminary assessment: the symbolism of slave and free labor -- 6. The emancipation of America, I : The limits of revolutionary ideology ; Slavery as an obstacle to man's true destiny ; The penalty of being inconsistent -- 7. The emancipation of America, II : How Negroes could help emancipate white Americans ; Race and reality ; The perishability of revolutionary time ; Declension and justification -- 8. The preservation of English liberty, I : The English context compared with that of America and France ; Some political and ideological implications ; Antislavery as reinforcement of legitimate authority -- 9. The preservation of English liberty, II : Slavery as the prime symbol of corruption ; Benevolence as the redemption of politics ; The slave system as a mirror for English society -- 10. Antislavery and the conflict of laws : Property versus legal personality ; Personal dominion versus service ; Contract and consent: toward a free labor ideology ; Conflicting jurisdictions -- 11. The good book : The perversion of Scripture: the Bible's bondage to slavery ; Apologetics and latitudinarian drift ; Initial slaves ; Jesuit intrigue ; Come sound the jubilee!
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00229
UR  - https://bac-lac.on.worldcat.org/oclc/422008877
ER  -