Address to the Non-Slaveholders of the South on the Social and Political Evils of Slavery
Address to the Non-Slaveholders of the South on the Social and Political Evils of Slavery

Author: Lewis Tappan

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 95

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Lewis Tappan, a New York abolitionist, delivers a powerful message in 'Address to the Non-Slaveholders of the South on the Social and Political Evils of Slavery'. Drawing on his experience in the fight against slavery, Tappan offers a compelling argument against the institution, highlighting the social and political evils it perpetuates.

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South

Author: Hinton Rowan Helper

Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning

Published: 1860

Total Pages: 224

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This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.

Armies of Deliverance
Armies of Deliverance

Author: Elizabeth R. Varon

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 019086060X

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In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims.

The Address of the People of South Carolina Assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States
The Address of the People of South Carolina Assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States

Author: South Carolina. Convention

Publisher:

Published: 1860

Total Pages: 54

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This call to arms, prepared by Robert Barnwell Rhett, is, accoding to Harwell, the earliest Confederate imprint. It chronicles the "discontent and contention" between North and South "for the last thirty-five years," caused by "the aggressions and unconstitutional wrongs, perpetrated by the people of the North on the people of the South." Today the United States government, once a "government of confderated republics," is now "a Despotism." Rhett argues that the "Southern States, now stand exactly in the same position towards the Northern State, that the Colonies did towards Great Britain." Rhett urges like-minded southerners to join with South Carolina by seceding from the Union. "It cannot be believed, that our ancestors would have assented to any Union whatever with the people of the North, if the feelings and opinons now exisiting amongst them, had existed when the Constitution was framed. There was then, no Tariff -- no fanaticism concerning negroes." He argues them "to be one of a great Slaveholding Confederacy..."