Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas

Chapter 2 turns to antebellum Virginia and the debates between slaveholders Thomas Dew and John Hartwell Cocke, stressing that while Dew defended slavery and Cocke pushed abolition and colonization, both advocated amelioration; Dew just believed that reform made slavery acceptable. [...]because Laur...

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Published in:Journal of Southern History 2016, Vol.82 (1), p.145
Main Author: O'Malley, Gregory E
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
British Empire
Historians
Laurens, Henry (1724-92)
Plantations
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Summary:Chapter 2 turns to antebellum Virginia and the debates between slaveholders Thomas Dew and John Hartwell Cocke, stressing that while Dew defended slavery and Cocke pushed abolition and colonization, both advocated amelioration; Dew just believed that reform made slavery acceptable. [...]because Laurens-arguably the most prolific slave trader in colonial North America-asserted after the Revolution that the slave trade had been foisted on colonists by Britain, it raises profound questions about how seriously we should take his expressed ideas (or those of other slaveholders).
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.1353/soh.2016.0031