A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865

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This anthology brings together under one cover a very powerful abolitionist and–unique to this volume–proslavery documents written in the US between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many in the past inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a vital and welcome contribution to a literature that includes just a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print.

Mason Lowance’s introduction is a superb overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. Lowance also introduces each and every selection, locating it historically, culturally, and thematically in addition to linking it to other writings. The documents represent the full scope of the varied debates over slavery. They include examples of race theory, Bible-based arguments for and against slavery, constitutional analyses, writings by former slaves and women’s rights activists, economic defenses and critiques of slavery, and writings on slavery by such major writers as William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Together they give readers an actual sense of the complexity and heat of the vexed conversation that increasingly more dominated American discourse as the country moved from early nationhood into its greatest trial.

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