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An account of the southern American slaveholders' path toward a sectional mentality. Drawing on archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic and literary sources, it traces the growth of a slave-owning culture that cast the planter in the role of benevolent Christian steward.

In Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829, Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled thirteen texts that reveal the development of proslavery perspectives across the colonial and early national South, from Maryland to Georgia. The tracts, lectures, sermons, and petitions in this volume demonstrate that defenses of human bondage had a history in southern thought that long predated the later antebellum era traditionally associat...

Explores the relationship between proslavery thought, Christianity, racism, and sectionalism. This book emphasizes the ways in which justifications for slavery were introduced into the American South by reformers who hoped to integrate the region into a transatlantic religious community.